Latin Cross Emoji ✝

U+271D

Emoji Meaning

The religious symbol represents the Christian Latin (Catholic) cross.

Сharacter derived from set of glyphs the ITC Zapf Dingbats series 100.

The symbol “Latin Cross” is included in the “Crosses” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. In 2015, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 1.0 and added to the “Religion” subcategory of the “Symbols” category.

Text is also available in the following languages: Español; Русский;

Synonyms

christian cross.

Emoji ✝ Latin Cross on platforms

Unicode Name	Latin Cross
Unicode Number
Plane	0: Basic Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block	Dingbats
Unicode Subblock	Crosses
Unicode Version	1.1 (1993)
Emoji Version	1.0 (2015)
Emoji Category	Symbols
Emoji Subcategory	Religion
Emoji Name	Latin Cross

Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi)	None
Composition Exclusion	No
Case change	271D
Simple case change	271D
Grapheme_Base	+
scripts	Common
Pattern_Syntax	+

Encoding	hex	dec (bytes)	dec	binary
UTF-8	E2 9C 9D	226 156 157	14851229	11100010 10011100 10011101
UTF-16BE	27 1D	39 29	10013	00100111 00011101
UTF-16LE	1D 27	29 39	7463	00011101 00100111
UTF-32BE	00 00 27 1D	0 0 39 29	10013	00000000 00000000 00100111 00011101
UTF-32LE	1D 27 00 00	29 39 0 0	489095168	00011101 00100111 00000000 00000000