✘
Technical information
| Symbol | ✘ | |
| Name | Heavy ballot x (bold cross) | |
| Unicode number | U+2718 | |
| Category | X marks | |
| Description | The Unicode character ✘, or U+2718, is known as the "Heavy Ballot X". It is a part of the "Dingbats" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character resembles a bold, heavy 'X' and is often used to indicate wrong, incorrect, or negative results. It is also commonly used in voting or selection scenarios to mark an option as rejected or to represent a negative vote. This symbol is especially prevalent in digital and printed forms, checklists, and documents where clear visual communication of incorrectness or failure is needed. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ✘ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ✘ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%9C%98 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x9C 0x98 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10011100:10011000 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x2718 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00002718 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u2718" | |
| CSS Code | \2718 | |
| JavaScript | "\u2718" | |
| Perl | \x{2718} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u2718" | |
| Python 3 | \u2718 | |
| Ruby | \u{2718} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ✘ in sentence and in bold like this ✘ and in italic like this ✘.
input-group
Font size:
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
input
disabled input
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select
button
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>✘</span>
span {
content: "\2718";
}The symbol in different fonts
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana