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circled cross formee

Circled Cross Formée

In a church service book, 🤂 marks a service at the Vigil rank. In ordinary chat it has no fixed everyday reading as of 2026, so the sender's context matters.

Text symbol
Also called
cross formée · typicon cross
Search it as
typicon · typicon symbol · vigil service · circled cross · maltese cross · liturgical mark
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 🤂 means

It marks the Vigil rank in a church's service book.

Isidore Dolnitsky, a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest and liturgical scholar, included this exact mark in his Typicon, published in Lwów in 1899. A Typicon is a church book that sets out services; his served Byzantine Catholic communities, predominantly in Ukraine. The wider system of Typicon service-rank marks is first attested in the 11th century Greek Regulations of Nikon of the Black Mountain; that does not show this exact mark existed then.

If the character appears as an empty box, the selected font does not contain its glyph.

Ecclesiastical and specialist; outside a service-book context, its meaning may be unclear.

Don't use it as a generic Christian greeting; it marks a service rank.

What it means when someone sends it to you

2 readings
Sent beside a service name
Marks a Vigil-ranked service in that church's service calendar.
Sent alone in ordinary chat
No fixed everyday reading as of 2026; ask the sender what they mean.

Don't confuse it with

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🕀
Circled Cross Pommee
🕀 is the separate circled Cross Pommée Typicon sign; 🤂 is the Cross Formée sign. They are different signs, not substitutes.

Questions people ask

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Why 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.

How to type 🤂

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1F902, 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 “circled cross formee”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1f902, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🤂
CSS
\1F902
Microsoft Word for Windows
To type 🤂 in Word for Windows, enter 1F902 and press Alt+X; this shortcut works there as of 2026.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🤂
HTML hex
🤂
CSS content
content: "\1F902";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%A4%82
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On screen
1
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.

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