How to type Heavy Ballot X
To type Heavy Ballot X (✘), press Alt + 10008 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+2718 directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 2718 on Linux, or 2718 then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Heavy Ballot X
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+2718
- Windows
- Alt + 10008 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 10008 | 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+2718 | HEAVY 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 Heavy Ballot X
The code chart points from ✘ to ballot bold script x (U+1F5F6). These are the characters the standard thinks you might have meant instead, which makes them the ones worth checking when Heavy Ballot X looks nearly right but not quite.
How Heavy 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 Heavy Ballot X
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+2718 |
| Decimal | 10008 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 9C 98 |
| UTF-16 bytes | 27 18 |
| HTML entity | ✘ |
| HTML numeric | ✘ or ✘ |
| CSS | \2718 |
| JavaScript | \u2718 |
| Python | \u2718 |
| URL-encoded | %E2%9C%98 |
| SVG | 2718.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ✘ arrives as ✘
Its three UTF-8 bytes E2 9C 98 are being read one at a time as Windows-1252. The text is undamaged; the reader has to be told it is UTF-8.