Male Sign

Group: Dingbats

Keywords

dingbats

About this character

Male Sign belongs to the Dingbats group and is encoded at U+2642. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+2642
Hex: 2642
Decimal: 9794
HTML: ♂
CSS: \2642
JavaScript: \u2642
Python: \u2642
UTF-8: E2 99 82

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Black Safety Scissors U+2700 Similar
Upper Blade Scissors U+2701 Similar
Black Scissors U+2702 Similar
Lower Blade Scissors U+2703 Similar
White Scissors U+2704 Similar
White Heavy Check Mark U+2705 Similar
Telephone Location Sign U+2706 Similar
Tape Drive U+2707 Similar
Airplane U+2708 Similar
Envelope U+2709 Similar
Raised Fist U+270A Similar
Raised Hand U+270B Similar
Victory Hand U+270C Similar
Writing Hand U+270D Similar
Lower Right Pencil U+270E Similar
Pencil U+270F Similar
Upper Right Pencil U+2710 Similar
White Nib U+2711 Similar
Black Nib U+2712 Similar
Check Mark U+2713 Similar
Heavy Check Mark U+2714 Similar
Multiplication X U+2715 Similar
Heavy Multiplication X U+2716 Similar
Ballot X U+2717 Similar

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.