Crosses Symbols

Cross and X forms: multiplication crosses, saltires, Maltese and other heraldic crosses, and the ballot X used to mark rejection or closure.

This group holds 15 characters. They are scattered from U+16ED to U+2720, 4,148 codepoints apart, because they were added to Unicode at different times and for different reasons. They are drawn from Dingbats (8), Miscellaneous Symbols (6) in the Unicode Standard, which is what decides how each one is encoded and how software sorts and compares it.

Most of them, 8 of the 15, come from Dingbats: the printer's ornaments from the classic Zapf Dingbats font. A block is an address rather than a category, and this group is drawn from 2 of them. The rest come from Miscellaneous Symbols.

None of these is listed here with a Windows Alt code, so copying is the route in this drawer.

Every character below copies with one click. Point at any of them and the readout at the foot of the window gives the codepoint, the Mac shortcut and the HTML entity.

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