U+1F7AE "🞮" Extremely Heavy Saltire Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🞮
U+1F7AE "🞮" Extremely Heavy Saltire is a typographic symbol classified within the Geometric Shapes Extended block, representing an X shaped cross or saltire with extremely thick or bold strokes. Its design is purely graphical and lacks a dedicated, widely recognized semantic meaning in standard text, but it can serve as a decorative element, a marker for points of interest on maps, or a stylized alternative to the multiplication sign or the letter X in specialized notation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F7AE |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Extremely 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 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDFAE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F7AE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udfae |
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 |