Cross symbol to copy and paste

What is the cross symbol?

A cross you paste is a letter of Unicode. The Latin cross ✝︎ and the dagger † have been in it since 1993, the Syriac crosses ♰ and ♱ that bios love since 1999, and the upside-down ⸸ since 2012. Pasted, they take on the font of the text around them. ✝️ and ☦️ are emoji as well, which a phone draws in its own colors.

Over 80 crosses wait below, each named: plain ones for text, the crosses of the churches, emoji, aesthetic, cute and gothic combos, the X of a wrong answer and the ankh. The die dresses a cross in sparkles, wings, frames or roses, and can make over 1,000 combos.

How to copy and paste a cross

1. Find your cross among the kinds, or search by its name: upside down, Orthodox, X.
2. Tap it once to copy it; the note at the foot of the screen names it.
3. Paste it into a bio, a username, a caption or a message.

What the cross symbols mean

• Latin cross ✝︎: the cross of Christianity, the cross of Jesus; ✝️ is its emoji.
• Orthodox cross ☦︎: the cross of the Eastern Orthodox churches, its slanted lower bar a footrest.
• Cross of Jerusalem ☩: the cross of the crusaders’ Kingdom of Jerusalem.
• Cross of Lorraine ☨: two bars; the sign of Free France in the Second World War, and of the fight against tuberculosis.
• Maltese cross ✠: eight points, the Knights of Malta, and the badges of many firefighters.
• Chi Rho ☧: the first two letters of Christ in Greek, one of the oldest Christian signs.
• Saint Andrew’s cross ☓: an X-shaped cross, white on blue in the flag of Scotland.
• Upside down cross ⸸: the cross of Saint Peter, who by tradition was crucified head down; in metal and horror, a sign against the church.
• Dagger †: a footnote in print, and after a name or a year, a death.
• Ankh ☥: life, in the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt.
• Cross mark ❌: wrong, no, or cancel.

How to type a cross on a keyboard

• Mac: Option and T type †, and Option, Shift and 7 type ‡.
• Windows: Alt and 0134 on the number pad give †, Alt and 0135 give ‡; ✝️ and ❌ are in the emoji panel, the Windows key with a period.
• iPhone and Android: search the emoji keyboard for cross to find ✝️ ☦️ ❌; a plain † or ✞ is quicker to copy from this page.
• Word: 271D, then Alt and X, writes ✝.
• HTML: † is †, ✠ is ✠, and ✗ is ✗.

Aesthetic, cute and gothic crosses

In a bio a cross rarely stands bare. Sparkles and clouds make it aesthetic, ⋆｡‧₊˚♰˚₊‧｡⋆; wings and bows make it cute, 𓆩♱𓆪 or 🎀✝️🎀; roses, bats and the upside-down ⸸ make it gothic. Letters to match are on our page of the Old English font, hearts beside it among the heart symbols, and stars among the star symbols.

Cross out and X symbols

A cross is also an X. ❌ marks a wrong answer or a no, ✗ and ✘ cross something out, ☒ is a box crossed on a form, × is the sign of multiplying, and ✕ often closes a window. And 𝕏, the double-struck letter, is how many write the name of X, once Twitter.

Where the cross symbol comes from

The shape is older than Christianity. Crosses in circles are carved in rock across Bronze Age Europe, and Egypt wrote life with the ankh ☥. The first Christians drew a fish or the Chi Rho ☧ rather than the cross, still an instrument of execution; it became their emblem in the 4th century, after Emperor Constantine, and has been ever since. In print the dagger † has long marked footnotes, and after a name, a death.

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