U+2642 ♂ MALE SIGN U+2640 ♀ FEMALE SIGN U+26A5 ⚥ MALE AND FEMALE SIGN U+25B3 △ WHITE UP-POINTING TRIANGLE U+25A1 □ WHITE SQUARE U+25CB ○ WHITE CIRCLE The three standard sex symbols in biology are male ♂, female ♀ and hermaphroditic ⚥; originally the symbol for Mercury, ☿, was used for the last. These symbols were first used by Carl Linnaeus in 1751 to denote whether flowers were male (stamens only