A circle with an arrow pointing north-east represents the symbol, formally included to emojis in 2016 with Emoji 4.0. Mars symbol helped in achieving new male oriented profession emojis faster with the help of ZWJ and other already present characters. When placed after other emojis ♂️ translates the gender of the preceding character as male.
Copy and paste ♂️ with one click!
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Use shortcode : :male_sign:
Note: - If you can't see the emoji, your device may not support Male Sign emoji but you can still use it on other platforms.
Representations : male sign can be represented by ♂️ emoji.
but currently not supported in Apple, LG, HTC, Microsoft, Messenger, Mozilla
Male Sign may look different on every device. In the above images you can view how Male Sign emoji appears on different devices. Emoji of Male Sign can be used on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and many other platforms and OS but not supported in Apple, LG, HTC, Microsoft, Messenger, Mozilla. Some devices may show a blank box or X instead of Male Sign emoji as every device doesn't support each one of the emoji.
This emoji was first introduced in Unicode 1.1 and was later added to Emoji 4.0. Male Sign emoji was first rolled out by Microsoft on October 26, 2012 with Windows 8.0 update. Soon Samsung, Skype, Twitter, Google added the emoji on April 27, 2013, June 1, 2015, September 20, 2016, October 20, 2016 respectively.
| Language | Short Name |
|---|---|
| Spanish | signo masculino |
| German | Männersymbol |
| French | symbole de l’homme |
| Russian | мужской символ |
| Italian | simbolo genere maschile |
| Portuguese | símbolo de masculino |
| Unicode : | U+2642;U+FE0F |
| Hex Code | |
|---|---|
| Code Point(s): | 2642; fe0f |
| HTML Entity: | ♂️ |
| UTF-8: | E2 99 82 |
| UTF-8 (C): | E2 99 82 |
| UTF-16: | 0x2642 |
| UTF-16 (C): | 0x2642 |
| UTF-32: | 2642;FE0F |
| UTF-32 (C): | 0x00002642; 0x0000FE0F |
| Decimal Code | |
| Code Point(s): | 9794 |
| HTML Entity: | ♂ |
| UTF-16: | 9794 |
| UTF-32: | 9794 |
| Octal Code | |
| UTF-8: | 342 231 202 |
| Other developer codes: | |
| PHP: | "\xe2\x99\x82" |
| Python: | u"\U0002642;\U000FE0F" |
| Java, C++, C: | "0x2642" |
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