How to type Ballot Box with X
To type Ballot Box with X (☒), press Alt + 9746 on Windows, holding Alt while typing the digits on the numeric keypad, or write ☒ in HTML. On any system you can copy it from this page, or enter its codepoint U+2612 directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 2612 on Linux, or 2612 then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Ballot Box With X
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+2612
- Windows
- Alt + 9746 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 9746 | Above 255, so Windows will not accept it as typed. Copy the character instead. |
| Mac | N/A | Press the keys together. |
| HTML | ☒ | Paste this into HTML source. |
| Unicode | U+2612 | BALLOT BOX WITH X |
Other symbols
☒ lives in the Miscellaneous Symbols block (U+2600-U+26FF), weather, astrology, religion, games and a wide miscellany. Within Unicode it is classified as So, a symbol.
What Unicode says about Ballot Box with X
The code chart points from ☒ to squared times (U+22A0), x in a rectangle box (U+2327), ballot box with light x (U+2BBD), ballot box with ballot (U+1F5F3) and ballot box with script x (U+1F5F5). These are the characters the standard thinks you might have meant instead, which makes them the ones worth checking when Ballot Box with X looks nearly right but not quite.
How Ballot Box with X behaves in software
☒ takes one column in a terminal. It carries no direction of its own, so in a line that mixes English with Arabic or Hebrew it takes the direction of the text around it rather than forcing one.
Every way to write Ballot Box with X
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+2612 |
| Decimal | 9746 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 98 92 |
| UTF-16 bytes | 26 12 |
| HTML entity | ☒ |
| HTML numeric | ☒ or ☒ |
| CSS | \2612 |
| JavaScript | \u2612 |
| Python | \u2612 |
| URL-encoded | %E2%98%92 |
| SVG | 2612.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ☒ arrives as ☒
Its three UTF-8 bytes E2 98 92 are being read one at a time as Windows-1252. The text is undamaged; the reader has to be told it is UTF-8.