Mars / male copy & paste
♂ is mars / male, a plain-text Unicode symbol from the Miscellaneous Symbols block. On Aesthetic Symbols it lives in the zodiac & astro collection, tagged planet. As plain text it takes on the font and colour of wherever you paste it — a bio, a username, a caption or a stream title.
- Unicode
- U+2642
- HTML entity
- ♂
- CSS content
- \2642
- JavaScript
- \u{2642}
- UTF-8 bytes
- E2 99 82
- Made of
U+2642 ♂ MALE SIGN · Miscellaneous Symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993) · emoji since Emoji 4.0 (2016)
Will it show up? · Long-established text symbols
Plain-text characters from blocks that mainstream desktop and mobile fonts have covered for years. These are the safe ones.
Worked out from how each character is encoded, not from a test on a real device.