# ♀

| Text style | Emoji style |
| ♀︎ | ♀️ |
| Text style is forced with ⟨&#xFE0E;⟩ and emoji style with ⟨&#xFE0F;⟩. ||
| ♀ U+2640, &#9792; FEMALE SIGN ← ☿ [U+263F] Miscellaneous Symbols ♁ → [U+2641] ||

## Translingual
### Etymology

A (copper/bronze) handmirror, symbol of the Greek goddess Aphrodite (and her Roman equivalent Venus). The cross was added in the 16th century to Christianize the symbol of a pagan god.

### Symbol

♀︎
* (biology) female.
** 1961 August 17, New Scientist, volume 11, number 248 (in English), Reed Business Information, →ISSN, page 413:In his Mantissa Plantarum (1767) and Mantissa Plantarum altera (1771), [Linnaeus] regularly used ♂, ♀ and ☿ for male, female and hermaphrodite flowers respectively.
** 1990, Charles S. Churcher, “Cranial Appendages of Giraffoidea”, George A. Bubenik, Anthony B. Bubenik, Horns, Pronghorns, and Antlers: Evolution, Morphology, Physiology, and Social Significance, New York: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, chapter 1.5, page 183:
    Figure 2. Ossicones, secondary ossification, and sinuses of Giraffa: A Lateral aspect of skull showing courses of veins, areas of dense ossification (heavily stippled) and lesser secondary ossification (lightly stippled), and outlines of skull roofs of male (♂) and female (♀) adults. (After Spinage 1968b.)
** 2015 July 6, Andy Burns, “Re: C4 last leg”, in uk.tech.broadcast‎ (Usenet; in English):I was quite surprised that a few of my friends found the male ♂ (mars) and female ♀ (venus) symbols on toilets in pubs/bars confusing ...
* (botany, of a flower) pistillate, carpellate.
* (astronomy, astrology) Venus.
* (alchemy) copper.
* (rare) Friday.
    Refers to the Latin phrase dies Veneris, which literally means "Venus's day".

#### Antonyms

* (biology): ♂

#### Derived terms

* (alchemy): 🜠 (copper ore)
    🜡 (copper-and-iron ore)
    🜢 (sublimate of copper)
    🜣 (crocus of copper)
    🜥 (copper antimoniate)
    ♀⃞ (copper foil)
* (gender): ⚢ (lesbian)
    ⚤ (heterosexual)
* (botany): ♀-♂ (monoecious)
    ♀:♂ (dioecious)

### Gallery

* Late Classical and Medieval forms of the astronomical symbol
* Classical form of the symbol, ⚲
* A decorative variant in the Netherlands
* As a symbol for copper
* An abstract variant
* Symbol on a pale-copper background
* Transit of Venus
* 1901 cover for Japanese literary magazine Myōjō
* 1995 UN conference on women
* Feminism/woman-power symbol
* ... on a flag
* Women's health
* Pregnant female

#### Related terms
### See also

* Gender symbol on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Latin
### Proper noun

♀ m sg (genitive ♀ris); third declension
* (alchemy) Abbreviation of Venus.
** 1701, Johann Christoph Sommerhoff, Lexicon pharmaceutico-chymicum latino-germanicum & germanico-latinum [Pharmaceutico-Chemical Lexicon, Latin–German and German–Latin], page 399:Arte ſivè Chymice parata: ut Vitriolum ♃vis, ☽næ, ♂tis, ☉lis, ♀risThose prepared by art or chemically: as vitriol of Jupiter, of the Moon, of Mars, of the Sun, of Venus

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | ♀ | ♀rēs |
| Genitive | ♀ris | ♀rum |
| Dative | ♀rī | ♀ribus |
| Accusative | ♀rem | ♀rēs |
| Ablative | ♀re | ♀ribus |
| Vocative | ♀ | ♀rēs |
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | ♀ | ♀ēs |
| Genitive | ♀is | ♀um |
| Dative | ♀ī | ♀ibus |
| Accusative | ♀em | ♀ēs |
| Ablative | ♀e | ♀ibus |
| Vocative | ♀ | ♀ēs |

#### Derived terms

* ♀︎is