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✜

heavy open centre cross

Heavy Open Centre Cross

✜ is usually an ornamental cross, not a faith statement. Its history includes medieval print ornaments and a design link to the Maltese cross; fonts can shift its centre and arm weight.

Text symbol
Search it as
ornamental cross · dingbat · Maltese cross · heavy cross
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ✜ means

Usually decorative, unless the surrounding words make faith explicit.

Medieval Books of Hours (daily prayer books) used cross ornaments; early printers adopted them for page decoration.

The Unicode chart notes a resemblance between ✜’s Zapf Dingbats design and Cross Formée, a heraldic cross with widening arm ends. That resemblance does not make every use religious or heraldic.

A formal-looking typographic ornament with visual weight.

✜ alone does not establish Christian meaning; fonts can shift its centre and arm weight.

What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings
Beside a heading
A marker or emphasis.
Inside faith-related text
Religious meaning comes from context.
In a profile name
An ornamental accent, not necessarily belief.

Don't confuse it with

3
✛
Open Centre Cross
An open-centre cross with lighter arms; ✜ is heavier.
✚
Heavy Greek Cross
Its centre is filled; ✜ leaves the centre open.
✠
Maltese Cross
Its arm ends are indented; ✜ has blockier open arms.

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 271C, 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 “heavy open centre cross”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 271c, then Enter or Space.
HTML
✜
CSS
\271C
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
✜
HTML hex
✜
CSS content
content: "\271C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%9C%9C
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
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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