Latin Capital Letter X With Dot Above

Group: World scripts

Keywords

scripts

About this character

Latin Capital Letter X With Dot Above belongs to the World scripts group and is encoded at U+1E8A. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+1E8A
Hex: 1E8A
Decimal: 7818
HTML: Ẋ
CSS: \1E8A
JavaScript: \u1E8A
Python: \u1E8A
UTF-8: E1 BA 8A

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.