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Orthodox Cross

Group: Dingbats

Keywords

About this character

Orthodox Cross belongs to the Dingbats group and is encoded at U+2626. 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+2626
Hex
2626
Decimal
9766
HTML
☦
CSS
\2626
JavaScript
\u2626
Python
\u2626
UTF-8
E2 98 A6

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

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