✚
Technical information
| Symbol | ✚ | |
| Name | Heavy greek cross | |
| Unicode number | U+271A | |
| Category | Crosses | |
| Description | The Unicode character ✚, or U+271A, is known as the "Heavy Greek Cross". It falls under the "Dingbats" block and is classified as a "Symbol, Other" in the Unicode standard. The heavy Greek cross is a variation of the traditional Greek cross, which has arms of equal length. This particular symbol is depicted with heavier, or thicker, lines. It can have various interpretations based on context but is often seen as a symbol of Christianity due to its resemblance to a cross. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ✚ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ✚ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%9C%9A | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x9C 0x9A | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10011100:10011010 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x271A | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000271A |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u271A" | |
| CSS Code | \271A | |
| JavaScript | "\u271A" | |
| Perl | \x{271A} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u271A" | |
| Python 3 | \u271A | |
| Ruby | \u{271A} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ✚ in sentence and in bold like this ✚ and in italic like this ✚.
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Font size:
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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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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: "\271A";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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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