U+26A5 Male and Female Sign
U+26A5 was added to Unicode in version 4.1 (2005). It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as intersex, androgynous and hermaphroditic (in botany).
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+26A5 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A gender symbol is a pictogram or glyph used to represent sex and gender, for example in biology and medicine, in genealogy, or in the sociological fields of gender politics, LGBT subculture and identity politics.
In his books Mantissa Plantarum (1767) and Mantissa Plantarum Altera (1771), Carl Linnaeus regularly used the planetary symbols of Mars, Venus and Mercury – ♂, ♀, ☿ – for male, female and hermaphroditic (perfect) flowers, respectively. Botanists now use ⚥ for the last.
In genealogy, including kinship in anthropology and pedigrees in animal husbandry, the geometric shapes △ or □ are used for male and ○ for female. These are also used on public toilets in some countries.
The modern international pictograms used to indicate male and female public toilets, 🚹︎ and 🚺︎, became widely used in the 1960s and 1970s. They are sometimes abstracted to ▽ for male and △ for female.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 9893 |
UTF-8 | E2 9A A5 |
UTF-16 | 26 A5 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 26 A5 |
URL-Quoted | %E2%9A%A5 |
HTML-Escape | ⚥ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ⥠|
alias | intersex |
alias | androgynous |
alias | hermaphroditic (in botany) |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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