Symbols · Emoji 4.0
♀️Female Sign Emoji
♀️ is the female sign, used to mark something as for or about women, tag gender in bios, or show feminist solidarity.
♀️ is the astronomical symbol for Venus and “female,” a circle with a small cross underneath, used for centuries in science before becoming a gender marker in everyday writing.
- Unicode
- U+2640 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :female_
sign: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the ♀️ Female Sign emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 3 of them.
02 — Platforms
Female Sign emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+2640 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your female sign looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Female Sign emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :female_sign:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+2640.
04 — How to type
How to type the ♀️ Female Sign emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+2640 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Female Sign emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Female Sign emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around female sign for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What ♀️ means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — Apps
What ♀️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
10 — History
Where the ♀️ Female Sign emoji came from
It arrived with the 4.0 release of the standard, which dates the female sign to 2016.
Female Sign was approved as U+2640 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 4.0 (2016). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so ♀️ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
11 — FAQ