U+2640 FEMALE SIGN (♀) is a visible symbol representing the female sex and the planetary/astrological symbol for Venus. In Unicode it has default text presentation, but it can request emoji-style rendering by appending Variation Selector-16 (U+FE0F), producing ♀️ on platforms that support color glyphs. Conversely, appending Variation Selector-15 (U+FE0E) requests a text-style glyph. On Apple/iOS, the standalone character typically appears as a monochrome symbol in text style, and as a colorful, often purple, icon when the emoji presentation is requested.
In the emoji system, FEMALE SIGN functions as a component used in zero width joiner (U+200D) sequences to create explicitly female variants of otherwise gender-neutral person or role emojis. The common pattern is [base person/role emoji] + ZWJ + FEMALE SIGN + VS16, yielding a single woman-form glyph on supported platforms (for example, 👮♀️ for woman police officer or 👱♀️ for person: blond hair, woman). FEMALE SIGN itself does not take skin tone modifiers; any Fitzpatrick skin tone is applied to the human base emoji in the sequence, while the sign remains unchanged. By itself, the character is a standalone symbol rather than a human figure, but it is widely used in signage, biology, and culture, and is fully visible when sent alone. If a system does not support a particular ZWJ gender sequence, the components may display separately (the base emoji plus the visible ♀ symbol), which is normal fallback behavior. Historically a long-established typographic symbol, it was later employed to help standardize gendered variants within emoji without introducing separate code points for every profession.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1217 of 2393 |
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| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
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| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
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| Emoji Code Version | iOS 10 Code |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | ♀ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | ♀ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | ♀ |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | ♀ |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 2640 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+2640 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 9792 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x99 0x80 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 99 80 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 231 200 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x2640 |
| UTF-16 Hex | 2640 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 9792 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x00002640 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 2640 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 9792 |
| Python Src | u"\u2640" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x99\x80" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u2640" |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 18 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | ♀️ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | ♀️ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | ♀ ️ |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | ♀ ️ |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 2640, fe0f |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+2640, U+FE0F |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 9792, 65039 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x99 0x80, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 99 80, EF B8 8F |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 231 200, 357 270 217 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x2640, 0xFE0F |
| UTF-16 Hex | 2640, fe0f |
| UTF-16 Dec | 9792, 65039 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x00002640 0x0000FE0F |
| UTF-32 Hex | 2640, FE0F |
| UTF-32 Dec | 9792, 65039 |
| Python Src | u"\u2640\uFE0F" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x99\x80\xef\xb8\x8f" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u2640\uFE0F" |
