Unicode Character "♂" U+2642 Male Sign
Unicode Version 15.1
♂
Summary
The unicode character "♂" at code point U+2642 is Male Sign. It is a character in the Miscellaneous Symbols block and is part of the Common script. The character is an other symbol. The UTF-8 encoding of "♂" is 0xE2 0x99 0x82 and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x2642.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2642 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Male Sign |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Entity | ♂ |
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ♂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ♂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x99 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2642 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002642 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2642 |