Light Saltire

Alone, 🞩 reads as a light diagonal X; context supplies its role. Nearby words or a diagram tell you what the writer intends.

A font draws this text character, so its stroke weight and proportions can vary. A font without the glyph may show a fallback box.

Why was 🞩 added?

To preserve a symbol-font glyph in ordinary text.

A 2011 proposal to encode Wingdings, a font family that showed pictorial symbols in place of ordinary letters, identifies 🞩 as Wingdings 2 “x 2” / “w-2206.” It says Wingdings first appeared with Windows 3.1 in 1992. Before Unicode encoding, these symbols depended on font-specific private-use codes or menu commands, making them hard to exchange between systems. Unicode gave this shape a portable text identity; it joined the geometric-shape set in Unicode 7.0 in 2014.

🞩 belongs to a set of diagonal X glyphs with progressively heavier strokes. “Light” describes its line weight, not an extra message.

Is 🞩 the Scottish saltire?

Only a clear Scottish context supports that reading.

A saltire is a diagonal cross used in heraldry. On Scotland’s flag, the white saltire represents St Andrew; related public symbols use it too. That association can identify a Scottish reference when the message supplies it, but 🞩 does not carry it on its own.