Heavy Open Centre Cross ✜
Symbol Meaning
An equipotential cross with open centre, not filled with colour. Unlike the icon similar to this ✛ , it's drawn with bold lines. That's why it attracts more attention when placed in a text or a post.
Heavy open centre cross is rarely used as a strictly religious symbol. Many believe that it rather looks like a schematically drawn flower with four petals, not a cult sign. You may come across it in texts or posts, where it's used as a dingbat — a kind of decoration or embellishment for bullet lists, titles, important footnotes, quotes. Apart from that, the symbol is often applied in nicknames and other non-religious contexts.
The symbol “Heavy 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 | 271C |
| Simple case change | 271C |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9C 9C | 226 156 156 | 14851228 | 11100010 10011100 10011100 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 1C | 39 28 | 10012 | 00100111 00011100 |
| UTF-16LE | 1C 27 | 28 39 | 7207 | 00011100 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 1C | 0 0 39 28 | 10012 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 00011100 |
| UTF-32LE | 1C 27 00 00 | 28 39 0 0 | 472317952 | 00011100 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
