How to type Ballot X
To type Ballot X (✗), press Alt + 10007 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+2717 directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 2717 on Linux, or 2717 then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Ballot X
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+2717
- Windows
- Alt + 10007 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 10007 | 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+2717 | BALLOT X |
Other symbols
✗ lives in the Dingbats block (U+2700-U+27BF), the printer's ornaments from the classic Zapf Dingbats font. Within Unicode it is classified as So, a symbol.
What Unicode says about Ballot X
The code chart points from ✗ to saltire (U+2613) and ballot script x (U+1F5F4). These are the characters the standard thinks you might have meant instead, which makes them the ones worth checking when Ballot X looks nearly right but not quite.
How Ballot 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 X
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+2717 |
| Decimal | 10007 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 9C 97 |
| UTF-16 bytes | 27 17 |
| HTML entity | ✗ |
| HTML numeric | ✗ or ✗ |
| CSS | \2717 |
| JavaScript | \u2717 |
| Python | \u2717 |
| URL-encoded | %E2%9C%97 |
| SVG | 2717.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ✗ arrives as ✗
Its three UTF-8 bytes E2 9C 97 are being read one at a time as Windows-1252. The text is undamaged; the reader has to be told it is UTF-8.