🚻

Text style	Emoji style
🚻︎	🚻️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
🚻 U+1F6BB, 🚻 RESTROOM ← 🚺 Transport and Map Symbols 🚼 →

The pictogram as well as the simplistic gendered symbols used for public toilets, 🚺 for female and 🚹 for male, were created by British Rail for their train stations in circa 1965,^[1] depicting a woman wearing a triangular skirt on the left and a man on the right, separated by a divider—a line.^[2]

This 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 🚻 and the other gender-specific symbols.^[3] The depictions of the man and woman were based on the Isotype picture language developed in Austria between 1925 and 1934.^[4][5]

Depiction of a man and a woman standing, sometimes separated by a divider (but see usage notes).

🚻︎

1. Marks public toilets.
   • 2008, Bernard Darras, Images et sémiologie: sémiotique structurale et herméneutique [Images and semiology: structural semiotics and hermeneutics] (in French), Éditions de la Sorbonne, →ISBN, page 136:

     Il repère rapidement un conglomérat de signalétique dans lequel il sélectionne le double pictogramme de silhouettes humaines accom-pagné d’une flèche.

     He quickly spotted a conglomeration of signage from which he selected the double pictogram of human silhouettes accompanied by an arrow.

   • 2022 January 19, Oliver Dunskus, 88 Temples in 55 Days: A Supplement to the 88 Temples of Shikoku (in English), Books on Demand (BoD), →ISBN, pages 7, 15:

     🚻 Toilets [...] A Tamaga Pass (450 m), 🚻

• Depictions of the symbol vary, especially the presence of a divider, placement of the people and their look. But generally, the woman is depicted as feminine, often by wearing a skirt, whereas the man is depicted as a generic stick figure wearing long pants.^[5][6] At restaurants and other businesses, it is common to see novelty and jocular variations of 🚻, ranging from slight differences to puns often focusing on gender stereotypes or allusions to the masculine and feminine body parts.^[7] However, some of these variants may be viewed as unnecessarily confusing or offensive.^[8][9]
• The symbol (named "toilets - unisex" and designated PF 003) is part of the ISO 7001 set of pictograms and symbols for "public information" by the International Organization for Standardization.^[10]
• As an emoji, almost all operating systems display this symbol as a blue or grey box with the man on the left and woman on the right, both coloured white. Facebook for Android and desktop and OpenMoji depict the woman on the left; in addition, Facebook colours the woman pink and the man blue. iOS, WhatsApp for Android and desktop, and Facebook depict the people as having a single leg. The presence of the divider also varies by system.^[11] The Unicode character itself displays the generic icon—man on the left—with the divider.^[12] The character was released in Unicode 6.0 in October 2010.^[13]

• Depictions
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  ISO 7001
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  DOT pictogram
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  Stylised variant in Budapest, Hungary
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  Common novelty design (pictured in Japan)

• 🚾
• 🚽

• 🚹 (“marks a public toilet used by men”)
• 🚺 (“marks a public toilet used by women”)

• 🚼 (“marks a baby changing station”)
• 🚿 (“marks a public shower”)

• Rudolf Modley, William R. Myers (1976) Handbook of Pictorial Symbols: 3,250 examples from international sources, Dover Publications, →ISBN, page 61