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Female sign
U+2640 · Miscellaneous Symbols
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Meaning and uses
The female sign, a circle with a small cross below. It comes from the astronomical symbol for Venus and is used in biology, on gender labels and in bios.
Unicode details
♀ is the Unicode character named FEMALE SIGN, code point U+2640, in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. It was added in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, and Unicode classes it as a symbol (general category So).
It can also appear as an emoji, listed under the name “female sign”. Plain text is its default, but some apps draw it in colour anyway. Adding the invisible variation selector U+FE0F after it asks for the emoji style, and U+FE0E asks for plain text.
| Unicode name | FEMALE SIGN |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+2640 |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols |
| Added | Unicode 1.1 (1993) |
| Emoji name | female sign |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 99 80 |
| UTF-16 | 2640 |
| HTML | ♀ or ♀ |
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How to type ♀
- On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
- On a phone, it is on the emoji keyboard: search for “female sign”. On Windows, press the Windows key and the full stop (Win+.) to open the emoji panel and search there.
- On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “female sign”.
- On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 2640, then Space or Enter.
- In HTML, use
♀or♀. In a CSScontentproperty, use"\2640".