🚻

Symbol origin
The pictogram as well as the simplistic gendered symbols used for public toilets, for female and  for male, were created by  for their train stations in, depicting a woman wearing a triangular skirt on the left and a man on the right, separated by a divider—a line.

This became standardised in the United States in 1974 when the collaborated with the  et al. on iconography for the public called the, which included several versions of 🚻 and the other gender-specific symbols. The depictions of the man and woman were based on the picture language developed in Austria between 1925 and 1934.

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

Usage notes

 * 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. 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. However, some of these variants may be viewed as unnecessarily confusing or offensive.
 * The symbol (named "toilets - unisex" and designated PF 003) is part of the set of pictograms and symbols for "public information" by the.
 * 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. for  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. The Unicode character itself displays the generic icon—man on the left—with the divider. The character was released in  in October 2010.