Heavy Greek Cross ✚

U+271A
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Symbol Meaning

A filled cross, which is traditionally called Greek. It consists of two even bars, converging in a perpendicular manner. The symbol has a concise design, it's made with two heavy black lines without shadows or discrepancies in the background.

Despite its sacred origins, the Greek cross is not used only in the religious context. It can be applied as an adding sign '+' in mathematics and equations, bullet lists, texts, and graphic elements decoration.

The symbol “Heavy Greek Cross” is included in the “Crosses” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.

Text is also available in the following languages: Español; Русский;

Unicode Name Heavy Greek Cross
Unicode Number
HTML Code
CSS Code
Plane 0: Basic Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block Dingbats
Unicode Subblock Crosses
Unicode Version 1.1 (1993)
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) None
Composition Exclusion No
Case change 271A
Simple case change 271A
Grapheme_Base +
scripts Common
Pattern_Syntax +
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 E2 9C 9A 226 156 154 14851226 11100010 10011100 10011010
UTF-16BE 27 1A 39 26 10010 00100111 00011010
UTF-16LE 1A 27 26 39 6695 00011010 00100111
UTF-32BE 00 00 27 1A 0 0 39 26 10010 00000000 00000000 00100111 00011010
UTF-32LE 1A 27 00 00 26 39 0 0 438763520 00011010 00100111 00000000 00000000

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