Gender and identity symbols include the familiar Mars โ for male and Venus โ for female, plus the combined and identity-focused glyphs: the transgender symbol โง, the interlocked pairs for two men โฃ, two women โข and a man-and-woman couple โค, the intersex โฅ and other Mars/Venus combinations โฆ โจ โฉ, and the doubled forms โฒ. The rainbow flag ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ rounds out the set. These characters started in astronomy and biology, where โ and โ also mark Mars and Venus, and are now paste into pronoun lines, dating and social bios, Pride captions, LGBTQ+ community usernames, and inclusive forms and surveys. Biology teachers use โ and โ to label organisms in worksheets and lab notes, while writers add โง or the couple glyphs to blog posts and profiles as compact, text-safe identity markers.
Gender & Identity Symbols to Copy
From astronomy to identity
The male โ and female โ signs are the same characters astronomers use for Mars and Venus, and biologists borrowed them centuries ago to mark sex in taxonomy. Unicode later added a fuller family: โฅ for intersex, โฆ and โง for transgender readings, and interlocking variants โข โฃ โค that show same-gender and mixed couples by joining two Venus or Mars circles. These are all single text characters in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. The rainbow flag ๐ณ๏ธโ๐, by contrast, is an emoji sequence built from a white flag joined to a rainbow, so it renders in full color rather than taking your text's shade.
Bios, pronouns and worksheets
In social profiles, people place โง or โ/โ beside pronouns to state identity briefly, and community accounts use โข โฃ โค to signal orientation without spelling it out. During Pride, ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ pairs with these in captions and display names. On the practical side, science teachers label diagrams and genetics problems with โ and โ, since the symbols are unambiguous in a worksheet or lab report. Survey and form designers offer them as compact answer options. Because most are plain text, they slot into usernames and headers where colorful emoji get stripped, while the flag adds a splash of color where emoji are allowed.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does the โง symbol represent?โผ
โง is the transgender symbol, combining elements of the Mars โ and Venus โ signs with an added stroke. It is widely used to signal transgender identity in bios, pronoun lines, Pride content and community graphics. As a standard Unicode character it pastes as text, so it takes the color of your font rather than appearing as a fixed colorful emoji on most platforms.
Why are the male and female symbols also planet symbols?โผ
โ and โ began as astronomical signs for Mars and Venus. Biologists later adopted them to denote male and female organisms, and the meanings coexist today. So the same character labels a planet in an astronomy chart and a sex in a biology worksheet; context tells readers which meaning applies.
Is the rainbow flag ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ a single character?โผ
No, it is an emoji sequence: a white flag ๐ณ๏ธ joined to a rainbow ๐ with a hidden zero-width joiner. Most modern devices display it as one rainbow flag, but on older systems the pieces may show separately. Unlike the text-style gender symbols, it renders in full color where emoji are supported.
