Male Sign

U+2642
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character
Decimal ♂
Hex ♂

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+2642
Decimal
9794
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Symbol (So)
Script
Common
Bidi class
ON Other Neutral
East Asian Width
A Ambiguous
Properties
Math

Emoji Details

Group
Symbols
Subgroup
gender
Shortcode
:male_sign:
Emoji version
E4.0
Skin tones
No

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Male Sign.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
♂
HTML Hex
♂
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 99 82
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
26 42
UTF-32 Hex
00002642
CSS Escape
\2642
JavaScript Escape
\u2642
Python Escape
\u2642
URL Encoded
%E2%99%82
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