Multiplication X ✕
Symbol Meaning
Symbol U+2715 in its classic version is used as a multiplication sign. Actually mathematics is not the only field where it can be applied. When you have to choose the right answer or vote for your candidate in a ballot, this symbol may function as a substitute for check. Besides, it's often written in bulleted lists to mark separate points. However, not the positive ones, but rather describing negative, unwanted, illegal things — in this case, the multiplication sign performs as a cross and means 'no' or forbids particular actions.
Multiplication sign is presented as two black lines, leaning towards each other and forming a cross. Unicode offers more symbols with a similar meaning. For example,
red cross-like mark,
black multiplication sign designed in bold lines.
The symbol “Multiplication X” is included in the “Miscellaneous” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Multiplication X |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Dingbats |
| Unicode Subblock | Miscellaneous |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2715 |
| Simple case change | 2715 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9C 95 | 226 156 149 | 14851221 | 11100010 10011100 10010101 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 15 | 39 21 | 10005 | 00100111 00010101 |
| UTF-16LE | 15 27 | 21 39 | 5415 | 00010101 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 15 | 0 0 39 21 | 10005 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 00010101 |
| UTF-32LE | 15 27 00 00 | 21 39 0 0 | 354877440 | 00010101 00100111 00000000 00000000 |