🚺

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🚺︎ 🚺️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
🚺 U+1F6BA, 🚺
WOMENS SYMBOL
🚹
[U+1F6B9]
Transport and Map Symbols 🚻
[U+1F6BB]

Translingual

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A female toilet sign (sense 1) in Mumbai, India

Symbol origin

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The female restroom pictogram, alongside the male equivalent, 🚹︎, and unisex 🚻, were each created in circa 1965 by British Rail for their train stations.[1][2] The symbol became standardised in the United States in 1974 when the Department of Transportation collaborated with the American Institute of Graphic Arts et al. on iconography for the public called the DOT pictograms, which included several versions of 🚺.[3] The depictions were based on the Isotype picture language developed in Austria between 1925 and 1934.[4][5]

The other senses take 🚺 literally.

Description

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Depiction of a woman standing.

Symbol

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🚺︎

  1. Marks a public toilet used by women.
  2. Marks text or content aimed at women.
    • 2002, Jeremy Atiyah, Southeast Asia (in English), Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 61:
      🚺 Women travellers
      Southeast Asia is generally a safe region for women to travel around alone.
  3. (uncommon, less common than ) Marks an area or place intended only for women.

Usage notes

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Synonyms

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Antonyms

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  • 🚹 (marks a public toilet used by men)

Hypernyms

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  • 🚻︎ (marks public toilets)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Association of Public Lighting Engineers (1965) The Illuminating Engineer[1], volume 58, Illuminating Engineering Publishing Company, page 347:A total lighting load of 20 kw for a toilet may sound excessive but the new luxury toilets recently opened at Victoria Station by British Rail are an exception. […] Large illuminated signs over the entrances incorporate easily recognised continental style pictograms.
  2. ^ Jonathan Glancey (2014 September 11) “The genius behind stick figure toilet signs”, in BBC Future[2], BBC News
  3. ^ American Institute of Graphic Arts (1974 November) Symbol Signs: The Development of Passenger/Pedestrian Oriented Symbols for Use in Transportation-Related Facilities[3], United States Department of Transportation, pages 28–32
  4. ^ Steven Heller (2014 April 24) “The Utopian Origins of Restroom Symbols”, in The Atlantic[4]
  5. ^ Margaret Rhodes (2015 May 22) “Redesigned ladies restroom icon cleverly skirts skirt”, in Wired[5]
  6. ^ Søren Kjørup (2004) “Pictograms”, in Klaus Robering, Roland Posner, Thomas Albert Sebeok, editor, Semiotik / Semiotics (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science), volume 4, De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 3505:Read as a picture, it typically shows, in a more or less detailed way, a person dressed in long pants, as opposed to the "picture" on the door to the ladies' room which shows a person wearing a skirt.
  7. ^ Melanie Gervasoni (2023 September 10) “50 Funny Bathroom Signs People Found Around The World”, in Bored Panda[6]
  8. ^ International Organization for Standardization (ISO) (2023 February) “Public information symbols”, in ISO 7001:2023: Graphical symbols — Registered public information symbols, 4 edition, ISO
  9. ^ “🚺 Women's Room”, in Emojipedia[7], 2023 October 6 (last accessed), Emoji Designs
  10. ^ “Version 6.0.0”, in The Unicode Standard[8], Unicode Consortium, 2010 October 11, retrieved 5 October 2023