Technical information

Symbol
NameHeavy greek cross
Unicode numberU+271A
CategoryCrosses
DescriptionThe 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-160x271A
UTF-320x0000271A

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u271A"
CSS Code\271A
JavaScript"\u271A"
Perl\x{271A}
Python 2u"\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 .

Font size:

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CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
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button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#10010;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\271A";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References