What 🞪 means
There is no universal keyboard shortcut.
If your app supports Unicode entry, enter 1F7AA using its documented method. The keystrokes depend on the app or operating system.
A Unicode source-reference table maps this character to item 2207 in Wingdings 2. That is a legacy font mapping, not a portable way to enter the Unicode character.
What does medium saltire mean?
It is an X-shaped diagonal cross with medium-weight strokes.
In heraldry, a saltire is a diagonal cross used on shields and flags. “Medium” describes its stroke weight in a graded set; it does not add a separate meaning.
A later Scottish tradition links the cross to a victory in 832; written accounts of that story appear in 15th- and 16th-century histories. Scottish seals show X-shaped St Andrew imagery by about 1180. The Guardians of Scotland used it on their official seal in 1286, and a 1385 order told soldiers to display a white St Andrew’s Cross on both sides.
What does it mean if someone sends 🞪?
A bare 🞪 has no dependable chat meaning.
It may be read as an X-shaped mark, a heraldic reference, or a Scottish or St Andrew reference. The surrounding words have to supply the distinction.
The saltire also appears as Scotland’s white cross, Burgundy’s red cross, and St Andrew’s cross within the Union Flag. Those are heraldic and flag uses; this character does not encode all of them by itself.
A specialist-looking text mark; its heraldic or Scottish reading needs context.
Bare 🞪 can look like an ordinary X; name Scotland or St Andrew if that is the point.
What it means when someone sends it to you
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4Questions people ask
1Why can 🞪 look different on different devices?
The font draws this text character, so its outline and apparent stroke weight can vary with the font in use.
How to type 🞪
🞪\1F7AACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.