U+1F7AA "🞪" Medium Saltire Unicode Character

U+1F7AA "🞪" Medium Saltire is a geometric symbol formally known as a "Medium Saltire," which represents a diagonal cross or an "X" shape of moderate thickness, primarily used in mathematical notation, map symbols, or heraldic contexts to denote a cross or an intersection. Assigned to the Unicode block "Geometric Shapes Extended," this character was added in Unicode version 7.0 under the category "Symbol, Other" and serves as a typographic element for diagrams, design work, or text-based illustrations where a simple, medium-weight X-shaped mark is required. Its visual appearance consists of two crossed diagonal lines meeting at the center, balanced in width and angle to distinguish it from lighter or heavier variants of similar saltire symbols.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F7AA
Version Added	7.0
Name	Medium 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 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDFAA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F7AA
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udfaa

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