What ⮽ means
A boxed X marks the selected option. The enclosure makes the X read as a choice rather than a rejection.
Britain's first secret parliamentary ballot used an X beside the chosen candidate in August 1872. A New York ballot printed in 1895 instructed voters to make a cross beside candidates they chose.
The box changes X's reading
On a ballot or checkbox, ⮽ marks a choice; on a teacher's correction, an unboxed X can mean wrong or canceled. UK guidance for the 2024 general election said a clearly intended vote could still count when marked with a tick rather than an X, so the ballot's instructions determine what counts.
Form-like and administrative: it marks a choice rather than a casual reaction.
The light stroke may look faint in some fonts; choose a heavier ballot-box mark when it must read at a glance.
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1Why does ⮽ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ⮽
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- ballot · checkbox · X in a box · cross mark · marked box
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⮽\2BBDCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.