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Text style
Emoji style
🚹︎
🚹️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
Depictions of the symbol vary, but it is generally shown to be a generic stick figure, sometimes wearing long pants. At restaurants and other businesses, it is common to see novelty and jocular variations of the icon, especially in regards to 🚺︎ (see the usage notes of 🚻︎).
^ Association of Public Lighting Engineers (1965) The Illuminating Engineer, 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.”
^ Jonathan Glancey (September 11 2014) “The genius behind stick figure toilet signs”, in BBC Future, BBC News
^ Steven Heller (April 24 2014) “The Utopian Origins of Restroom Symbols”, in The Atlantic
^ Margaret Rhodes (May 22 2015) “Redesigned ladies restroom icon cleverly skirts skirt”, in Wired
^ Rudolf Modley, William R. Myers (1976) Handbook of Pictorial Symbols: 3,250 examples from international sources (in English), Dover Publications, →ISBN, pages 59–60
^ 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.”
^ Melanie Gervasoni (September 10 2023) “50 Funny Bathroom Signs People Found Around The World”, in Bored Panda
^ “Version 6.0.0”, in The Unicode Standard, Unicode Consortium, October 11 2010, retrieved 5 October 2023