Female sign Emoji

Symbols

A dark circle resting above a small cross, representing the female gender symbol. It is often displayed as a clean, bold graphic used to denote biological sex or gender identity.

Usage Context

This symbol is frequently used to identify women's spaces, distinguish gendered products, or categorize demographic data. It is commonly paired with its counterpart, the ♂, to signify relationships, gender parity, or binary classifications.

History

Based on the astronomical symbol for the planet Venus, this sign has been used in biology and chemistry since the 18th century to represent the female sex. It was brought into the digital age when Unicode standardized it for character sets, eventually becoming a standard fixture in modern text messaging.

Details

Glyph

♀

Unicode

U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u2640:

HTML Entity

♀

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Symbols

Subcategory gender

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

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