Female Sign
U+2640♀Emoji or pictograph · decimal ♀
Gender Symbols Copy & Paste
Browse 60 gender symbols including modifier and joiner sequences. Mostly drawn from the Miscellaneous Symbols block. 52 render as text and 8 as emoji.
Review scope: Identity terminology and community usage can evolve. Use the language requested by the people represented and seek specialist review for research or policy contexts.
Copy gender symbols
60 characters and sequences. Pick one to put its exact characters on your clipboard.
No entry on this page matches.
01
Gender Symbols with Unicode names and HTML codes
12 of the 60 entries, shown with their full detail. Read the name before the shape. Each row also carries the hexadecimal and decimal HTML reference for the exact sequence.
Doubled Male Sign
U+26A3⚣Symbol · decimal ⚣
White Circle
U+26AA⚪Emoji or pictograph · decimal ⚪
Postal Mark Face
U+3020〠Symbol · decimal 〠
Hangul Syllable Yu
U+C720유Letter · decimal 유
Circled Katakana Si
U+32DB㋛Symbol · decimal ㋛
Yi Syllable Qyp
U+A415ꐕLetter · decimal ꐕ
Yi Syllable Hliex
U+A19BꆛLetter · decimal ꆛ
Vertical Kana Repeat With Voiced Sound Mark
U+3032〲Letter · decimal 〲
Apl Functional Symbol Star Diaeresis
U+2363⍣Symbol · decimal ⍣
Greek Small Letter Upsilon With Dasia And Oxia
U+1F55ὕLetter · decimal ὕ
Ceres
U+26B3⚳Symbol · decimal ⚳
02
Gender symbols in identity, biology and historical notation
Gender symbols appear in identity, biology, medicine and inclusive communication; use the form a person prefers.
These signs can carry different roles in identity, biology, genealogy and astronomy. Use the term and symbol preferred by the person or community, and add words when precision matters. Stored on this page are 60 entries, split 60 single characters to 0 sequences.
You will meet Female Sign, Doubled Male Sign, White Circle, Postal Mark Face among these. Measured over the full set, the leading name patterns are Apl Functional Symbol (6), Greek Small Letter (4), Male With Stroke (2). Single-character values span U+00DC to U+FB62.
Browse gender symbols by type
Emoji or pictograph
8 entries
Symbol
20 entries
Letter
32 entries
The shape of this collection
The range these gender symbols occupy
The span runs U+00DC to U+FB62. By Unicode general category that is letter 32, symbol 28.
How the official names cluster
Apl Functional Symbol (6), Greek Small Letter (4), Male With Stroke (2) lead the name frequencies — measured, not assumed.
Joiners, selectors and length
Of the sequences, 0 rely on a zero-width joiner and 0 on a variation selector; 1 code points is the longest single entry.
Picking the right gender symbol
Watch out for Yi Syllable Qyp next to Yi Syllable Hliex. They are different characters: U+A415 and U+A19B. Letter is the safe default at 32 entries.
Emoji or pictograph is the specialist choice, with just 8. Want colour? Pick one of the 8 emoji.
Want it to match your text? Pick one of the 52 plain ones. Always check it in the place it will appear.
We sort these by job rather than by Unicode category, so one group can hold several formal types.
32Letter
Characters that are letters in some script. 53% here.
20Symbol
Monochrome characters you can style like text. 33% here.
8Emoji or pictograph
Drawn by the operating system, not your font. 13% here.
03
Gender Symbols explained in plain English
Short summary
There are 60 gender symbols here. All of them copy in one click. The largest set is letter, with 32. Their home in Unicode is the Miscellaneous Symbols block. 8 of them are emoji and come out in colour. The other 52 take the colour of the text near them.
Sorted into 3 kinds
Letter is the biggest at 32. The rest split between symbol and letter.
Encoding, and why coverage varies
They come from Miscellaneous Symbols (19), Miscellaneous Technical (6) and Katakana (4). Across U+00DC to U+FB62, support gets patchy at the newer end.
Easy to confuse
Compare Yi Syllable Qyp with Yi Syllable Hliex. Same shape, different code point.
Emoji entries behave differently
8 come in colour you cannot change. Each brand draws its own.
Terms worth knowing
Useful terms when searching or describing gender symbols.
- Emoji or pictograph
- Symbol
- Letter
- Gender
- Female
- Male
- Transgender
- Identity
- Doubled
- Circle
- Postal
- Mark
A quick choice checklist
- Match the meaning. Start with emoji or pictograph when that group fits your message.
- Read the name. Compare Female Sign with Doubled Male Sign before you pick by shape.
- Test the result. Paste the full value into the app, document, or profile where it will appear.
What the gender symbols inventory actually contains
Every figure below is counted from the 60 entries stored for this page rather than estimated. The characters are drawn from Miscellaneous Symbols (19), Miscellaneous Technical (6) and Katakana (4).
| Group | Entries | Examples | Code points | Usual presentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emoji or pictograph | 8 | ♀ ♂ ⚧ | U+2639–U+26AA | Emoji presentation |
| Symbol | 20 | ⚲ ⚢ ⚣ | U+26A2–U+26B2 | Text presentation |
| Letter | 32 | ヅ ツ 웃 | U+00FC–U+C720 | Text presentation |
Practical note: Presentation is the typical default. A variation selector, a specific font stack, or an application that overrides emoji rendering can change what you see after pasting.
Where to go next
Compare these choices with hand symbols and emotion symbols. For a deeper explanation, read Accessible Symbol Use in Websites and Documents. If one question is enough, read are unicode symbols accessible to screen readers?.
Tip: A symbol should decorate a label, not replace it — plain words keep the meaning available to search and to assistive technology.
04
How to use gender symbols
Selecting an entry places its exact code points on your clipboard. Paste with Ctrl V, ⌘ V, or the Paste command on mobile.
01
Inclusive profile and identity text
Reach for Female Sign, and never let it replace a word that matters.
02
Gesture-based reactions
When handling gesture-based reactions, the 32 letter entries are the obvious pool, and let visual weight settle the final choice.
03
Health, biology and people labels
When creating health, biology and people labels, paste the complete entry — all of these are single code points, so a partial copy is not a risk here.
Copy-ready gender symbols examples for inclusive profile and identity text
Inclusive profile and identity text
♀ Gender referenceGesture-based reactions
♀ ♂ ⚧Health, biology and people labels
⚧ gender ♀05
How to type gender symbols on a keyboard
Copying is quicker, but these are typeable too. On Windows the alt code is the character's decimal code point; in Word the hexadecimal followed by Alt X does the same job without a keypad.
| Character | Name | Windows | Hex | HTML |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ♀ | Female Sign | Alt 9792 | 2640 | ♀ |
| ⚣ | Doubled Male Sign | Alt 9891 | 26A3 | ⚣ |
| ⚪ | White Circle | Alt 9898 | 26AA | ⚪ |
| 〠 | Postal Mark Face | Alt 12320 | 3020 | 〠 |
| 유 | Hangul Syllable Yu | Alt 50976 | C720 | 유 |
| ㋛ | Circled Katakana Si | Alt 13019 | 32DB | ㋛ |
Alt codes reach only the first 65,536 code points, and only from a numeric keypad. The complete keyboard guide covers every platform method in full.
06
How gender symbols render across fonts, apps and devices
Unicode keeps 66% of these in Miscellaneous Symbols. The rest come from Miscellaneous Technical and Katakana. 52 are plain text and follow your font.
8 are emoji and arrive in colour you cannot change. Unicode files the emoji ones under Symbols. Some are as recent as Emoji 0.6, so old devices may draw an empty box.
What travels is the character; what you see is whatever font the destination reaches for. That is why the same gender symbol can look heavier on a phone than in a document.
60Single characters
0Sequences
8Emoji properties
07
Common mistakes with gender symbols
- 1
Assuming one symbol captures every identity or context.
- 2
Using a biological notation as a substitute for a person's stated identity.
- 3
Relying on shape or color alone in a form.
08
Gender Symbols questions and answers
What is the difference between Yi Syllable Qyp and Yi Syllable Hliex?+
They are two distinct Unicode characters: Yi Syllable Qyp is U+A415 (HTML ꐕ) and Yi Syllable Hliex is U+A19B (HTML ꆛ). A font may draw them almost identically, but they sort and search as separate values.
What is the HTML code for female sign?+
♀ is the hexadecimal form and ♀ the decimal one; both render as ♀. On a page that declares UTF-8 you can also just paste the character.
Which gender symbols work as plain text rather than emoji?+
Look for the 52 non-emoji entries. Those behave like letters — style them, colour them, put them in a heading. The 8 emoji entries are drawn by the operating system instead.
Which Unicode block are these gender symbols in?+
The answer is Miscellaneous Symbols, covering 19 of them; the rest come from Miscellaneous Technical and Katakana. That matters because a font either supports a block broadly or barely at all.
Will these gender symbols work on older phones?+
The newest entry on this page was introduced in Emoji 0.6. Devices that have not received a font update since then will show a blank rectangle instead. Test on a real older device before using a recent character where the meaning matters.
Which gender symbol should I choose?+
Watch out for <b>Yi Syllable Qyp</b> next to <b>Yi Syllable Hliex</b>. They are different characters: U+A415 and U+A19B. <b>Letter</b> is the safe default at <b>32</b> entries. Emoji or pictograph is the specialist choice, with just <b>8</b>. Want colour? Pick one of the <b>8</b> emoji. Want it to match your text? Pick one of the <b>52</b> plain ones. Always check it in the place it will appear.
09
Learn more about gender symbols
Useful alongside these gender symbols
People emoji are built from joiners and modifiers, so an inspector that shows the exact code points in a sequence is the tool to reach for.
Invisible Character InspectorReveal zero-width spaces, joiners and direction marks without changing the text you paste into the inspector.Open the text inspector →Bubble Text ConverterTurn ordinary letters and numbers into enclosed Unicode characters for short labels and profile text.Open the text converter →
Pair a gender symbol with styled letters in the Symbol Maker. Every tool on this site runs locally and is listed in the Unicode tools hub.
10
Where this data comes from
Every figure on this page is computed from the stored inventory of 60 entries. Names, general categories and code points are generated from the Unicode 17.0 character database rather than typed by hand; emoji membership is read from the emoji data files published alongside it.
- Unicode Character Database — UnicodeData.txt (formal names and general categories)
- Unicode emoji-test.txt (fully-qualified emoji sequences and grouping)
- The Unicode Standard, current version
- How CoolSymbol.now sources, counts and tests this data