MALTESE CROSS

Property	Value
Codepoint	`U+2720`
Literal Character	✠
Name	MALTESE CROSS
Sketch	................ ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ ................ ................
Control Character	no

Block	Dingbats
Subblock	Archaic letters

UTF-8 byte encoding	`e2 9c a0`
UTF-16 byte encoding	`27 20` (big endian)
HTML Entity	`✠`
Perl string literal	`\x{2720}`

Comments	historically, the Maltese cross took many forms; the shape shown in the Zapf Dingbats is similar to one known as the Cross FormÃ©e

See Also	U+2E50: cross patty with right crossbar U+1F902: circled cross formee

Unicode Block

Codepage