Gender symbol
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A gender symbol is a symbol used to denote the sex of a life form or the gender of a human being.
[edit] Their origins
All the gender symbols are derived from astronomical symbols.
[edit] Standard gender symbols
From the symbol of Mars (Unicode: U+2642 ♂). The symbol for a male organism or a man.
From the symbol of Venus (Unicode: U+2640 ♀). The symbol for a female organism or a woman.
From the symbol of Mercury (Unicode: U+263F ☿). The symbol for an intersexual or hermaphroditic organism.
From the female and male symbols (Unicode: U+26A5 ⚥). Intersexual or transgender.
Another transgender symbol, a combination of the male and female sign with a third, combined arm representing transgender people (Unicode: U+26A7 ⚧).
From the symbol of Sagittarius (Unicode: U+2650 ♐). The symbol for an organism of unknown sex or gender.
From the symbol of Earth (Unicode: U+2295 ⊕). For generally everything of Earth; anonymous.
Other gender symbols in Unicode (Unicode 4.1+ required):
- ⚢ (Unicode U+26A2): Double female sign
- ⚣ (Unicode U+26A3): Double male sign
- ⚤ (Unicode U+26A4): Interlocked female and male sign
- ⚦ (Unicode U+26A6): Male with stroke sign
- ⚨ (Unicode U+26A8): Vertical male with stroke sign
- ⚩ (Unicode U+26A9): Horizontal male with stroke sign
See them all at http://www.decodeunicode.org/w3.php?nodeId=70064&page=1&lang=2&zoom=&prop=
