Heavy ballot X copy & paste
✘ is heavy ballot x, a plain-text Unicode symbol from the Dingbats block. On Aesthetic Symbols it lives in the charms & marks collection, tagged cross. As plain text it takes on the font and colour of wherever you paste it — a bio, a username, a caption or a stream title.
- Unicode
- U+2718
- HTML entity
- ✘
- CSS content
- \2718
- JavaScript
- \u{2718}
- UTF-8 bytes
- E2 9C 98
- Made of
U+2718 ✘ · Dingbats
Will it show up? · Long-established text symbols
Plain-text characters from blocks that mainstream desktop and mobile fonts have covered for years. These are the safe ones.
Worked out from how each character is encoded, not from a test on a real device.