U+1F540 "🕀" Circled Cross Pommee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F540 "🕀" Circled Cross Pommee is a symbolic glyph most commonly associated with heraldry and cartography, representing a cross with a pommee or pommy shape, which features a ball or knob at each of its four ends, enclosed within a circle. In heraldic tradition, the pommee cross signifies mercy or forgiveness, while in mapping contexts, such a symbol can denote a specific point of interest, a church, or a historical site on certain maps and diagrams. The character belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block of Unicode and is rarely used in standard digital text, often appearing instead in specialized note taking, geographic information systems, or design work requiring a clear, symmetrical emblem.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F540 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Circled Cross Pommee |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🕀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🕀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x95 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDD40 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F540 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udd40 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |