Cross Pommee

It marks a Polyeleos feast in an Orthodox Typikon. A Typikon is a guide to the services held through the church year. Polyeleos is a feast rank for commemorations of saints and icons; it can allow a vigil, an evening service before the feast, or change Matins, the morning service.

That is its precise reading in liturgical use. If it appears in a message without that setting, the sender's context matters; ask what source or tradition they mean if the distinction affects your reply.

Where did this cross come from?

The rounded ornament appears in a Moscow Typikon from 1641. Its form belongs to an evolving Orthodox service-book ornament tradition; the date shows it was in use by then.

A Typikon is a service guide; a Menologion is a calendar of commemorations. In either, 🕂 sits with the entry whose Polyeleos rank it marks. Russian, Ukrainian, diaspora, and other Orthodox service books use beads, diamonds, circles, or related crosses for the same ranking system. Heraldry also uses cross pommée for a cross with rounded knobs at the arm ends. That is a shape connection; a message still needs context.

How should I read it in a message?

Read it as specialist religious notation when it comes from that setting. An isolated message does not explain whether the sender means the liturgical sign, its shape, or something else; ask about the context before answering as though it were a blessing.

🕂 is a text character, so a font draws its visible form. It can look different across fonts, and a device without support may show a box or fallback shape; the encoded character remains the same.