Open Centre Cross ✛
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U+271B
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.
| 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 |
Copy and paste these codes to use the Open Centre Cross character in text for websites, social media, messengers, or blog posts.
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