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File:Female symbols.svg

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Signs for "female" and/or "woman" in various symbol systems.
Top row: Venus sign, toilet pictogram, modern Chinese character 女, ancient form of Chinese character (apparent abstract drawing of kneeling woman).

Bottom row: Ancient Egyptian hieroglyph ("B1" in Gardiner's sign list), late (1st millennium B.C.) form of Cuneiform sign, early Sumerian Cuneiform (abstract drawing of pubic triangle).
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The three symbols at the left of the top row are the ones in active current use (with many slight visual variations of each).
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Outlines taken from the following images and from fonts (the Egyptian hieroglyphic font by Serge J. P. Thomas): HeteroSym.svg, Toilets unisex.svg, 女-oracle-J26001.svg, MUNUS-SAL-sinnishtu Cuneiform.svg, Vulva symbols.svg

 
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 女-oracle-J26001.svg.
 
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 MUNUS-SAL-sinnishtu Cuneiform.svg.
 
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 Vulva symbols.svg.
Author AnonMoos, based on fonts and PD images
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Some lesser-known or less important female/woman symbols

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