Open Centre Cross ✛

U+271B
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Symbol Meaning

A cross not filled with colour. It consists of four bars which form a convergence at the centre. All the bars have the same length and width, that's why such a cross may be called Greek.

Open centre cross is rarely used to actually talk about religion. You are more likely to meet as a dingbat in a text — some kind of a decoration for bullet lists, titles, footnotes, quotes. Apart from that, the symbol is often applied in nicknames and other non-religious contexts.

The symbol “Open Centre Cross” is included in the “Crosses” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.

Text is also available in the following languages: Español; Русский;

Unicode Name Open Centre Cross
Unicode Number
HTML Code
CSS Code
Plane 0: Basic Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block Dingbats
Unicode Subblock Crosses
Unicode Version 1.1 (1993)
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) None
Composition Exclusion No
Case change 271B
Simple case change 271B
Grapheme_Base +
scripts Common
Pattern_Syntax +
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 E2 9C 9B 226 156 155 14851227 11100010 10011100 10011011
UTF-16BE 27 1B 39 27 10011 00100111 00011011
UTF-16LE 1B 27 27 39 6951 00011011 00100111
UTF-32BE 00 00 27 1B 0 0 39 27 10011 00000000 00000000 00100111 00011011
UTF-32LE 1B 27 00 00 27 39 0 0 455540736 00011011 00100111 00000000 00000000

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