♂️ Male Sign
Copy and paste this emoji: ♂️
Emoji Meaning
1
A circle with a diagonal arrow pointing to the right — the widely recognized symbol for male.
2
This symbol is the counterpart to the female sign ♀️ and, like it, denotes a person’s sex. It looks like a circle with an arrow pointing up and to the right at a 45° angle and is shown in a golden color.
Use this emoji when you want to indicate a man or a male — it’s perfect for when you send a gender-neutral smiley but need to point to a man.
Also Known As
- ♂️ Man Symbol
- ♂️ Mars Symbol
Unicode Name
- ♂️ Male Sign
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
♂️ Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+2642 U+FE0F
Shortcodes
- Github, Slack, Emojipedia, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %E2%99%82%EF%B8%8F |
| Punycode | xn--g5h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | E2 99 82 EF B8 8F |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \u2642\uFE0F |
| C, C++, Python | \u2642\uFE0F |
| CSS | \2642 \FE0F |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{2642}\u{FE0F} |
| Perl | \x{2642}\x{FE0F} |
| HTML hex | ♂️ |
| HTML dec | ♂️ |