U+2640 "♀" Female Sign Unicode Character

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.