Heavy Greek Cross ✚
Symbol Meaning
A filled cross, which is traditionally called Greek. It consists of two even bars, converging in a perpendicular manner. The symbol has a concise design, it's made with two heavy black lines without shadows or discrepancies in the background.
Despite its sacred origins, the Greek cross is not used only in the religious context. It can be applied as an adding sign '+' in mathematics and equations, bullet lists, texts, and graphic elements decoration.
The symbol “Heavy 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 | 271A |
| Simple case change | 271A |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9C 9A | 226 156 154 | 14851226 | 11100010 10011100 10011010 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 1A | 39 26 | 10010 | 00100111 00011010 |
| UTF-16LE | 1A 27 | 26 39 | 6695 | 00011010 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 1A | 0 0 39 26 | 10010 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 00011010 |
| UTF-32LE | 1A 27 00 00 | 26 39 0 0 | 438763520 | 00011010 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
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