What 🗙 means
On a control, it closes or abandons the current step. This X mark is a button label.
Early-modern English records used a cross as a personal mark instead of a signature. X in mathematics is documented by 1618; English mathematician William Oughtred used it in a 1631 book. A U.S. postal rule in 1847 specified a pen X to cancel stamps. These predate this character.
Neutral and functional; beside a control it reads as an instruction.
For serious cancellations, name the action.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why is 🗙 a box?
A font or encoding failure can hide it; check both and use UTF-8.
How to type 🗙
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1F5D9, then Alt+X to get 🗙.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cancellation x”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1f5d9, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🗙CSS
\1F5D9HTML
Use `🗙` in HTML source.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🗙
HTML hex
🗙
CSS content
content: "\1F5D9";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%97%99
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On screen
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Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.