♂ Male Sign Emoji

mars, alchemical symbol for iron, gender

U+2642

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Technical information

Name	Male Sign
Unicode number	U+2642
HTML-code	♂
CSS-code	\2642
Entity	&male;
Block	Miscellaneous Symbols
Unicode version:	1.1 (1993)
Emoji version:	4.0 (2016)
Emoji category:	Symbols
Emoji subcategory:	Gender
Alt code:	Alt 11

Emoji

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Emoji meaning

A sign which is basically a circle with a line going up diagonally (1 or 2 o'clock) in the right direction. It is a male symbol, the colour of which varies across platforms. It can be dark blue, light blue, or yellow.

Male Sign was approved as part of Unicode 1.1 in 1993 and added to Emoji 4.0 in 2016.

Text is also available in the following languages: Русский; Español;

Properties

Age	1.1
Block	Miscellaneous Symbols
Bidi Paired Bracket Type	None
Composition Exclusion	No
Case Folding	2642
Simple Case Folding	2642

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Encoding

Encoding	hex	dec (bytes)	dec	binary
UTF-8	E2 99 82	226 153 130	14850434	11100010 10011001 10000010
UTF-16BE	26 42	38 66	9794	00100110 01000010
UTF-16LE	42 26	66 38	16934	01000010 00100110
UTF-32BE	00 00 26 42	0 0 38 66	9794	00000000 00000000 00100110 01000010
UTF-32LE	42 26 00 00	66 38 0 0	1109786624	01000010 00100110 00000000 00000000