U+1F542 "🕂" Cross Pommee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🕂
U+1F542 "🕂" Cross Pommee is a typographic symbol classified under the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, representing a cross with a pommee or ball terminations at the ends of each arm, a design often associated with heraldry, medieval religious iconography, and ecclesiastical art. This glyph differs from more common Christian crosses by its distinctive rounded or bulbous extremities, which give it a decorative and symbolic quality linked to concepts of faith, blessing, and ecclesiastical authority. While it is not as widely used in modern digital text as other cross variants, it remains available in Unicode for specialized historical, liturgical, or design contexts where a more ornate cross form is needed.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F542 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | 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 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDD42 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F542 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udd42 |
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 |