Male Sign HTML entity &male;

&male; is the HTML entity for Male Sign ♂ (U+2642). Copy the decimal ♂ and hex ♂ codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.

Entity: &male;
Code point: U+2642
Unicode name: MALE SIGN
Block: Miscellaneous Symbols
Category: Other symbol (So)
Since: Unicode 1.1
Defined in: HTML5

Codes to copy

HTML named	`&male;`Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined.
HTML decimal	`♂`Works in HTML and XML.
HTML hex	`♂`Works in HTML and XML.
CSS	`content: "\2642";`In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after.
JavaScript	`"\u2642"`Also valid in JSON.
Python	`"\u2642"`Python 3 string literal.
Python by name	`"\N{MALE SIGN}"`Readable alternative using the Unicode name.
URL	`%E2%99%82`Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value.
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 99 82`3 bytes.
UTF-16	`2642`1 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts.

When to use it

&male; writes U+2642 (Male Sign), a symbol from the Unicode Miscellaneous Symbols block, encoded since Unicode 1.1. Symbols vary in shape and size between fonts, so check how it renders in the font your page uses.

The name comes from the HTML5 list (much of it shared with MathML), so it works in every current browser but not in XML or XHTML served as XML, where the numeric reference is the safe choice.

This character also has an emoji form: ♂️ Male Sign. Add U+FE0F after it for the emoji style or U+FE0E for the text style.

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Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).