Heavy multiplication X copy & paste
✖ is heavy multiplication 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+2716
- HTML entity
- ✖
- CSS content
- \2716
- JavaScript
- \u{2716}
- UTF-8 bytes
- E2 9C 96
- Made of
U+2716 ✖ · 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.