Technical information

Symbol
NameBox drawings light diagonal cross
Unicode numberU+2573
CategoryDiagonalsX marks
DescriptionThe Unicode character ╳, or U+2573, is known as the "Box Drawings Light Diagonal Cross". It is a part of the "Box Drawing" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character resembles an 'X' and is often used in graphic user interfaces, diagrams, or designs where a lightweight, diagonal cross is required. It is one of a series of characters used for creating box and line drawings, particularly in older, text-based computing environments.

Encoding

HTML Entity╳
HTML Entity (hex)╳
URL Escape Code%E2%95%B3
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x95 0xB3
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10010101:10110011
UTF-160x2573
UTF-320x00002573

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u2573"
CSS Code\2573
JavaScript"\u2573"
Perl\x{2573}
Python 2u"\u2573"
Python 3\u2573
Ruby\u{2573}

Preview

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

Font size:

12px
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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>&#9587;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\2573";
}

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