MALTESE CROSS

Codepoint

U+2720

Literal Character

✠

Name

MALTESE CROSS

Sketch

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Control Character

no

Block

Dingbats

Subblock

Crosses

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 Formée

See Also

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

Wikipedia

Christian cross (en)
Cross pattée (en)