U+1F7AC "🞬" Heavy Saltire Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F7AC "🞬" Heavy Saltire is a geometric symbol representing a thick, diagonal cross resembling the Scottish Saint Andrew's cross or a heraldic saltire, and it was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the Geometric Shapes Extended block to support decorative typography, map symbols, and design systems that require a bold X shaped marker.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F7AC |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Heavy 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 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDFAC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F7AC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udfac |
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 |