Technical information

Symbol
NameCross of jerusalem
Unicode numberU+2629
CategoryCrosses
DescriptionThe Unicode character ☩, or U+2629, is known as the "Cross of Jerusalem". It belongs to the "Miscellaneous Symbols" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. The Cross of Jerusalem is a symbol associated with Christianity and the city of Jerusalem, and specifically symbolizes the five wounds of Christ. It is a Greek cross (a cross with equal arms) with smaller crosses in each of its quadrants. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in.

Encoding

HTML Entity☩
HTML Entity (hex)☩
URL Escape Code%E2%98%A9
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x98 0xA9
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10011000:10101001
UTF-160x2629
UTF-320x00002629

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u2629"
CSS Code\2629
JavaScript"\u2629"
Perl\x{2629}
Python 2u"\u2629"
Python 3\u2629
Ruby\u{2629}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ☩ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

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72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9769;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\2629";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References