SELANGOR, MALAYSIA — A pair of cryptic bathroom signs in Selangor, Malaysia has left the internet perplexed, generating buzz about what it means. 

X user Mr Daniel Salleh Mokhtar spotted a puzzling sight on New Year’s Day (Jan 1). He snapped a pictured of two bathroom doors, one labelled with a cloud shape atop an upright isosceles triangle and another with a cloud shape atop an inverted isosceles triangle.

“Ah yes, the two genders: ice cream and cloud on a hill,” tweeted Mr Daniel with the accompanying image.

The Malay tutor, 32, told TODAY that the photo was taken in an ice-cream shop in Kota Kemuning, Selangor. 

The tweet, posted last Saturday (Jan 6) on X, has been trending on X (formerly Twitter), and has garnered over 1.3 million views and been reshared over 530 times as of Tuesday (Jan 9). 

After Mr Daniel posted the image of the toilet signs, X users chimed in their own creative interpretations of the signs. 

“In truth, all of us are either ice cream or not ice cream,” one user joked.

Someone quipped: “Man’s toilet on the left. Because women are always right.” 

Another X user had a more imaginative take to the signs: “(It’s a) feminine broccoli and a nuclear detonation.”

Some users also bemoaned the “confusing” toilet signs, preferring simple and clear signs over artistic and abstract ones.

“I hate toilet signs like this. Signs are supposed to be clear,” said one online user.

“At this point, I would be peeing in front of the door because I would think for too long,” a second user commented.

Mocking the prevalence of creative toilet signs, another said: “Still waiting for the day we need to do calculus to determine gender before entering the bathroom.”

Another joked: “The door to Ravenclaw's common room be like…” referencing a house of a school in popular blockbuster Harry Potter, which is known to have the smartest students. 

Despite the sign stumping many online users, Mr Daniel said that he was able to instantly decipher the sign as he was a fan of semiotics.

“Triangles are the usual representation for females, resembling a skirt. Just like how we used to draw stick figures,” he said, on how he decoded the sign.

The post also prompted other users to showcase other creative toilet signs they have spotted.

One features neon signs with abstract drawings of the reproductive organs of each sex.

 Another has a more direct interpretation, labelling each gender with Hokkien expletives. 

A cute sign was spotted in Kyoto of both genders wearing traditional Japanese garments.