The Venus symbol is a depiction of a circle with a small cross below it. The symbol is historically associated with the Roman goddess Venus

Venus (mythology)

Venus is a Roman goddess principally associated with love, beauty, sex,sexual seduction and fertility, who played a key role in many Roman religious festivals and myths...

 or the Greek goddess Aphrodite

Aphrodite

Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation.Her Roman equivalent is the goddess .Historically, her cult in Greece was imported from, or influenced by, the cult of Astarte in Phoenicia....

. It has a Unicode designation of U+2640, and is used in various media to represent things associated in some way with the mythological character, including:

• The female
  Female
  Female is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces non-mobile ova .- Defining characteristics :The ova are defined as the larger gametes in a heterogamous reproduction system, while the smaller, usually motile gamete, the spermatozoon, is produced by the male...
  
   sex
• The planet Venus
  Venus
  Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty. After the Moon, it is the brightest natural object in the night sky, reaching an apparent magnitude of −4.6, bright enough to cast shadows...
  
  
• The chemical element copper
  Copper
  Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu and atomic number 29. It is a ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. Pure copper is soft and malleable; an exposed surface has a reddish-orange tarnish...
  
  
• Feminism
  Feminism
  Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...
  
   in philosophy and sociology
• The female connector in a pair of mating connectors or fasteners

It is also believed by some to represent a hand mirror. The top half of the symbol representing the actual mirror, and the bottom half representing the handle of the mirror.

See also

• Classical planets in Western alchemy
  Classical planets in western alchemy
  Alchemy in the Western World and other locations where it was widely practiced was allied and intertwined with traditional Babylonian-Greek style astrology; in numerous ways they were built to complement each other in the search for hidden knowledge...
  
  
• Mars symbol
  Mars symbol
  The Mars symbol is a depiction of a circle with an arrow emerging from it, pointing at at angle to the upper right. In old manuscripts, it is usually interpreted as the shield and spear from the war god Mars/Ares. The symbol has the Unicode entry U+2642. It is used in many fields as a...
  
  
• Gender symbol
  Gender symbol
  A gender symbol is a symbol used to denote the sex of a life form or to characterize an agent by gender.The two standard gender symbols denoting male ♂ and female ♀ are derived from astrological symbols, denoting the classical planets Mars and Venus, respectively.These symbols have been in use...
  
  
• The ankh
  Ankh
  The ankh , also known as key of life, the key of the Nile or crux ansata, was the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic character that read "eternal life", a triliteral sign for the consonants ʻ-n-ḫ...
  
  , an Egyptian hieroglyph resembling the Venus symbol