What means
From the Model III character set. Radio Shack introduced the TRS-80 Model III in 1980. Its text display used a table of ready-drawn marks; was one computer graphic, later preserved in Unicode text.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box?
The app's font lacks the glyph. The character remains in the text; the box is only the missing-glyph fallback.
How to type
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1FBCB, 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 “white cross mark”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fbcb, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🯋CSS
\1FBCBCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🯋
HTML hex
🯋
CSS content
content: "\1FBCB";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AF%8B
1
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.