Heavy Ballot X ✘
Symbol Meaning
Heavy cross U+2718 is used in official papers and documents to mark the right answer. It's also put in voting ballots and bullet lists to express the preferable option or finished activities.
Unlike multiplication signs, this symbol is formed by two uneven crossed lines. It looks as if it was written by hand with a bold black highlighter or crayon. In order to make the symbol more natural, its borders were drawn roughly.
If you're looking for an analogue of this symbol to use in voting questionnaires, check this one ✗ . It has a similar image, but a thinner texture.
The symbol “Heavy Ballot 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 | Heavy Ballot 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 | 2718 |
| Simple case change | 2718 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9C 98 | 226 156 152 | 14851224 | 11100010 10011100 10011000 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 18 | 39 24 | 10008 | 00100111 00011000 |
| UTF-16LE | 18 27 | 24 39 | 6183 | 00011000 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 18 | 0 0 39 24 | 10008 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 00011000 |
| UTF-32LE | 18 27 00 00 | 24 39 0 0 | 405209088 | 00011000 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
