U+26BB "⚻" Quincunx Unicode Character

U+26BB "⚻" Quincunx is a typographic symbol representing an arrangement of five points or objects, with one at each corner of a square and one in the center, resembling the pattern on a die face showing five. Historically, the term originates from Latin "quincunx," referring to a Roman coin worth five twelfths of an as, as well as a military formation and a planting pattern used in agriculture. In modern contexts, this symbol is often employed in astrology, astronomy, and geometry to denote a 150 degree angular aspect between celestial bodies, or in statistics for sampling designs and grid layouts. Its visual form, composed of five small circles or dots in a cross like configuration, makes it visually distinct and useful for representing quintuple or radial symmetry in various technical and decorative applications.

General Properties

Code Point	U+26BB
Version Added	5.1
Name	Quincunx
Block	Miscellaneous Symbols
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	⚻
HTML Hex Encoding	⚻
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0x9A 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x26BB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000026BB
C/C++/Java Escape	\u26bb

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
Pattern Syntax	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other