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♂️ Male Sign emoji

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July 5, 2018

What does ♂ Male Sign emoji mean?

The male sign emoji, ♂, represents the male sex or gender, especially used to indicate the male form of an emoji person, like man pouting emoji 🙎‍♂️ or man construction worker 👷‍♂️.

Related words:

♀ female sign emoji
🤦‍♂️ man facepalming emoji
🤷‍♂️ man shrugging emoji
Mars symbol emoji

Where does ♂️ Male Sign emoji come from?

Examples of ♂️ Male Sign emoji

I swear I’ve never been so in love with someone like i am right now 🤦🏻♂

@_jeremiahFace, June, 2018

"Doing what you love doing and loving what you doing you will enjoy doing it."Working on my jumper on this blessed Saturday..⛹🏾

@DelmaineJr, June, 2018

If they don’t add value to your goals in life, don’t waste your time on dealing with them. 🙇🏾

@Jalen_Butler5, June, 2018

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Who uses ♂️ Male Sign emoji?

The male sign emoji most often appears on social media because your operating system doesn’t support male versions of emoji people. That means you’re seeing someone indicating a male runner, swimmer, shrugger.

Messi FC did not survive this at all 🤦‍♂️

— KONJI (@SpiritualKonjji) June 30, 2018

Nigga kicked in my door trying to rob me. I ran in the room & put on a ski mask and said ain’t shit in here. Let’s go. 🏃🏾‍♂️😂

— Pryce Jones (@OfficialPryce) June 30, 2018

This problem affects a few emoji professionals, like the man police officer 👮‍♂️, which is based on the default police officer emoji 👮 and the male sign emoji. (Other male professionals sequence the man emoji 👨 with the default emoji for the profession, such as the man teacher 👨‍🏫.)

Residents on the #IsleOfDogs reporting #Theft & #Robbery

JUST arrested two males for these offences in #MillwallPark

Currently residing at Her Majesty’s finest Custody suite in one of our cells in #BethnalGreen 🙏👮‍♂️👍#HereForTheCommunity #YouAskWeDid #PoplarSNT pic.twitter.com/nKTQ6pW5Mn

— Poplar Police (@MPSPoplar) June 22, 2018

The male sign emoji doesn’t see the same symbolic resonance as the female sign emoji, used to champion women’s rights. (Because patriarchy?) When the male sign emoji is used on its own, which is rare, it simply signifies something is “male” or intended for men.

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