U+2640 "♀" Female Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
♀
U+2640 "♀" Female Sign is a typographic symbol representing the female gender, derived from the astrological and alchemical symbol for the planet Venus, which itself is linked to the goddess of love and beauty. It consists of a circle with a small cross underneath, and its usage has expanded widely beyond its original astronomical and biological contexts to denote women, femininity, and female-associated concepts in fields such as medicine, sociology, and digital communications. The character was encoded in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993 and is part of the Miscellaneous Symbols block, serving as a standardized glyph for global text and computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2640 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Female Sign |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ♀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ♀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x99 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2640 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002640 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2640 |