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Meaning & usage
What does the Female Sign emoji mean?
The Venus symbol, for women, female and gender in general.
Purely a label. It names a category and carries no tone of its own.
How to use ♀️ naturally
Forms, biology, sports categories and anything labelling gender.
Reaction symbols work like visual emphasis: they reinforce a word, rate an idea or replace a short response. Repetition normally increases intensity, but it can also make a message feel more performative.
From standard to slang
The history of ♀️
- 2016
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Female Sign was first defined as emoji in Emoji 4.0, dated 2016. The release that developed the sequence system, so new concepts need not mean new characters.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
The astronomical symbol for Venus, used for the female sex in biology since the eighteenth century. Unicode inherited it from the technical blocks and gave it emoji presentation in 2016.
- Today
How its use evolved
Forms, biology, sports categories and anything labelling gender.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of ♀️ in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Under-18 category, both sides ♀️
Biology revision, week three ♀️
Sign-up form needs one of these ♀️
When to use it
Using ♀️ clearly
Forms, biology, sports categories and anything labelling gender. It lands as female emoji or female symbol emoji when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the female sign emoji
What does ♀️ mean in a text message?
The Venus symbol, for women, female and gender in general. Purely a label. It names a category and carries no tone of its own.
Is ♀️ always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are female emoji, female symbol emoji, ♀️ meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does ♀️ look different on another device?
U+2640 U+FE0F identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the female sign emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. ♀️ is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the female sign emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records ♀️ as emoji in Emoji 4.0, dated 2016. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
♀️ in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+2640 U+FE0F | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | ♀️ | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | ♀️ | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \2640 \FE0F | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{2640}\u{FE0F} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %E2%99%80%EF%B8%8F | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+2640 U+FE0F
- Category
- Symbols & Reactions
- Also known as
- female emojifemale symbol emoji♀️ meaning
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