Heavy Open Centre Cross Heavy Open Center Cross

U+271C

Heavy Open Centre Cross Heavy Open Center Cross is the Unicode character ✜ at codepoint U+271C in the Dingbats block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard — or use one of the encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.

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How to Use Heavy Open Centre Cross Heavy Open Center Cross

To use the Heavy Open Centre Cross Heavy Open Center Cross symbol (✜) in HTML, insert the entity ✜ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ✜ works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\271C';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u271C' evaluates to ✜. In Python source, write '\u271C'.

The character encodes to E2 9C 9C as UTF-8 bytes and 271C as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 10012.

This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.

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Last updated on 5 May 2026