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U+2626 · ORTHODOX CROSS

Orthodox Cross

  • CodepointU+2626
  • NameORTHODOX CROSS
  • Emoji nameorthodox cross
  • Decimal9766
  • BlockMiscellaneous Symbols (U+2600–U+26FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2626 (☦) is ORTHODOX CROSS, a symbol in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “orthodox cross”, in the Symbols group, subgroup religion. By default it is shown as a text glyph; follow it with U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 to request the colour emoji form (U+2626 U+FE0F), or with U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15 to force text style.

How to type ☦

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 98 A63 bytes
UTF-1626261 code unit
UTF-32000026264 bytes
HTML decimal☦
HTML hex☦
CSS\2626in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2626
JSON\u2626
Python\u2626
Python\N{ORTHODOX CROSS}by name
Java / C#\u2626
C / C++\u2626universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2626}
Go\u2626
Ruby\u2626
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9766)
URL-encoded%E2%98%A6percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Miscellaneous Symbols

All in block →
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