U+1F7A8 "🞨" Thin Saltire Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🞨
U+1F7A8 "🞨" Thin Saltire is a symbolic glyph belonging to the Geometric Shapes Extended block, representing a thin, X-shaped cross or diagonal cross, often used in cartography, heraldry, or mathematical notation to indicate a crossing, a mark, or a directional reference. Its design consists of two slender, intersecting diagonal lines, setting it apart from bolder saltire symbols, and it can serve as a stylized marker in digital text, diagrams, or decorative contexts where a minimal, open-ended cross is preferred.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F7A8 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Thin Saltire |
| Block | Geometric Shapes Extended |
| 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 0x9E 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDFA8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F7A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udfa8 |
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 |