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U+26E8 · BLACK CROSS ON SHIELD

Black Cross on Shield

  • CodepointU+26E8
  • NameBLACK CROSS ON SHIELD
  • Decimal9960
  • BlockMiscellaneous Symbols (U+2600–U+26FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version5.2 (2009)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+26E8 (⛨) is BLACK CROSS ON SHIELD, 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 5.2 (2009).

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type ⛨

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 9B A83 bytes
UTF-1626E81 code unit
UTF-32000026E84 bytes
HTML decimal⛨
HTML hex⛨
CSS\26E8in content: "…"
JavaScript\u26E8
JSON\u26E8
Python\u26E8
Python\N{BLACK CROSS ON SHIELD}by name
Java / C#\u26E8
C / C++\u26E8universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{26E8}
Go\u26E8
Ruby\u26E8
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9960)
URL-encoded%E2%9B%A8percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Miscellaneous Symbols

All in block →
U+26E2⛢Astronomical Symbol for Uranus U+26E3⛣Heavy Circle with Stroke and Two Dots Above U+26E4⛤Pentagram U+26E5⛥Right-Handed Interlaced Pentagram U+26E6⛦Left-Handed Interlaced Pentagram U+26E7⛧Inverted Pentagram U+26E9⛩Shinto Shrine U+26EA⛪Church U+26EB⛫Castle U+26EC⛬Historic Site U+26ED⛭Gear without Hub U+26EE⛮Gear with Handles