About Orthodox Cross
Orthodox Cross is the Unicode character ☦️ at codepoint U+2626 in the Miscellaneous Symbols block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Technical Reference
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How to Use Orthodox Cross
To use the Orthodox Cross symbol (☦️) in HTML, insert the
entity ☦️ directly into your markup.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\2626';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2626' evaluates to ☦️. In Python source, write '\u2626'.
The character encodes to E2 98 A6 as UTF-8 bytes and 2626 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9766.
This is a fully-qualified emoji and should render with colour on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. Appearance may vary between platforms, but the underlying codepoint is identical everywhere.