Outlined Greek Cross ✙
Symbol Meaning
Outlined Greek cross is a symbol that consists of a heavy black cross and a thin frame bigger than the central structure. The frame casts a bit further that the cross, and due to such design, the symbol looks three-dimensional and bulky.
Crosses with even rectangular bars, which are perpendicular to each other, are often called Greek. Unicode has more symbols denoting this Christian phenomenon. For example, ✚ heavy Greek cross, ✜ heavy open centre cross. Despite the sacred origins, the use of such symbols is not restricted to the religious context.
The symbol “Outlined Greek Cross” is included in the “Crosses” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2719 |
| Simple case change | 2719 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9C 99 | 226 156 153 | 14851225 | 11100010 10011100 10011001 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 19 | 39 25 | 10009 | 00100111 00011001 |
| UTF-16LE | 19 27 | 25 39 | 6439 | 00011001 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 19 | 0 0 39 25 | 10009 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 00011001 |
| UTF-32LE | 19 27 00 00 | 25 39 0 0 | 421986304 | 00011001 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
