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Men’S Room 🚹️

Added in Emoji 0.6 · Symbols Transport Signs

Codepoint U+1F6B9
Shortcode :mens:
Version Emoji 0.6

Meaning

The men's room symbol shows a simple blue rectangular sign with a stylized white silhouette of a man—typically depicted in profile or facing forward with a straight posture. The design is clean and instantly recognizable, following the universal pictogram language used in public facilities worldwide.

You'll spot this emoji in travel conversations, directions, and bathroom-related discussions both literally and humorously. People use it when giving directions ("the men's room is down the hall"), joking about bathroom emergencies, or in group chat contexts where gender-specific facilities matter. It's become shorthand for asking "Where's the bathroom?" or marking restroom locations in maps and facility guides.

The symbol has been standardized across airports, malls, and transit hubs globally, making it universally understood regardless of language. This emoji preserves that international accessibility online, though most people encounter it more in practical contexts—hotel websites, venue apps, or directional posts—than in casual social media messaging.

Approved as part of Unicode Emoji 0.6 in 2010, this sign-based emoji represents decades of standardized public signage design that predates digital communication.

Common Uses

  • Giving bathroom directions in a venue or building
  • Marking restroom locations on maps or guides
  • Making jokes about bathroom emergencies

Popular Combos

🚹️🚺️ 🚹️➡️ 🚹️🧻

Did You Know?

The silhouette figure on the men's room sign became the international standard for public restroom signage in the 1960s-70s and remains virtually unchanged across continents.

Keywords

bathroom lavatory man men’s restroom room toilet wc

Related Emoji

Technical Reference

Platform Shortcodes

GitHub :mens:
Slack :mens:
Discord :mens:

Developer Codes

HTML (decimal)
🚹
HTML (hex)
🚹
CSS
\1F6B9
JavaScript
\uD83D\uDEB9
Python
\U0001F6B9
Java
\uD83D\uDEB9
Perl
\x{1F6B9}
PHP / Ruby
\x{1F6B9}
Punycode
xn--2rax
URL Encoded
%F0%9F%9A%B9
UTF-8 Bytes
0xF0 0x9F 0x9A 0xB9

🚹️ in 28 languages

Names sourced from Unicode CLDR and emojibase.

Language Name
Bengali পুরুষদের কক্ষ
Chinese (Simplified) 男厕
Chinese (Traditional) 男廁
Danish herretoilet
Dutch herentoilet
English men’s room
English (UK) men’s room
Estonian meeste-WC
Finnish miesten wc
French symbole Toilettes hommes
German Herren
Hindi पुरुष कक्ष
Hungarian férfimosdó
Italian simbolo del bagno degli uomini
Japanese 男子トイレ
Korean 남자 화장실
Lithuanian vyrų tualetas
Malay tandas lelaki
Norwegian herretoalett
Polish toaleta męska
Portuguese banheiro masculino
Russian мужской туалет
Spanish aseo para hombres
Spanish (Mexico) señal del baño de los hombres
Swedish herrtoalett
Thai ห้องน้ำชาย
Ukrainian чоловіча вбиральня
Vietnamese nhà vệ sinh nam