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| Keywords: Obscure-female-symbols.svg These are some lesser-known or less historically important symbols meaning female and/or woman The well-known and historically important symbols with this meaning are included in another graphic File Female symbols svg 1 A crescent moon which can symbolize a woman when a contrasting sun symbol usually drawn with flaming rays symbolizes a man This was used in some allegorical contexts and supposedly also on the doors of early 19th-century women's outhouses in the United States 2 The main symbol for a woman in Chapter I of Rudolf Koch's Book of Signs The corresponding symbol for a man is a vertical line with two upwards diagonal lines branching off near the top 3 A downward-pointing angle the chalice which is used in some occultistic/neopagan contexts the corresponding male symbol being the upward-pointing angle or blade This can also appear as a downward-pointing triangle though a basic unelaborated triangle is actually rather ambiguous in meaning Rudolf Koch prefers the upward-pointing triangle as a female sign instead and in some versions of modern bathroom symbols a circle on top of an upward-pointing triangle -- similar to the ancient symbol of the goddess Tanit -- indicates a women's restroom while a circle on top of a downward-pointing triangle indicates a men's restroom For a slightly elaborated version of a downward-pointing triangle which is an unambiguous female symbol see File Female symbols svg 4 The female symbol of the Labanotation dance writing system The corresponding male symbol would change the inside hollow circle to a filled circle Note that a simple circle often indicates woman or female in genealogical charts sociograms kinship terminology diagrams etc However a circle would not be commonly understood as meaning woman / female as a stand-alone symbol outside the context of such a diagram and so is not included in this image or in File Female symbols svg Crescent shape taken from PD image File Triple_Goddess_Symbol_Filled svg Triple_Goddess_Symbol_Filled svg The Labanotation female symbol was converted from the following PostScript vector source code <pre> 12 setlinewidth 72 72 42 0 360 arc closepath stroke gsave 40 setlinewidth 1 setgray 72 128 moveto 72 93 24 lineto stroke grestore 72 172 moveto 72 92 lineto stroke 72 72 16 0 360 arc closepath stroke showpage EOF</pre> The other symbols were made by myself from scratch based on publicly-available information and declared by me to be PD 2016 AnonMoos thumb center More well-known or important female/woman symbols Female symbols Images with PostScript source code | ||||
