Technical information

Symbol
NameX in a rectangle box
Unicode numberU+2327
CategoryBallot box symbols
DescriptionThe Unicode character ⌧, or U+2327, is known as the "X in a Rectangle Box". It belongs to the "Miscellaneous Technical" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. The symbol visually appears as an 'X' enclosed within a rectangular shape. This character is commonly used to indicate the action of cancellation or deletion, similar to a 'clear' button on an input device or user interface. You might see it on digital keyboard or keypad for example, when there's a need to clear or erase the input.

Encoding

HTML Entity⌧
HTML Entity (hex)⌧
URL Escape Code%E2%8C%A7
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x8C 0xA7
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10001100:10100111
UTF-160x2327
UTF-320x00002327

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u2327"
CSS Code\2327
JavaScript"\u2327"
Perl\x{2327}
Python 2u"\u2327"
Python 3\u2327
Ruby\u{2327}

Preview

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

Font size:

12px
16px
20px
28px
36px
48px
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>&#8999;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\2327";
}

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