U+2717 "✗" Ballot X Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
✗
U+2717 "✗" Ballot X is a typographic symbol used to indicate a negative response, rejection, cancellation, or incorrectness in various contexts, such as on ballots, checklists, or forms, and it is visually similar to a weighted or decorative X mark, distinguishing it from the standard letter X. Unlike the more circular Heavy Ballot X (U+2718), this character often appears with a more angular or neutral design, making it suitable for formal documents, user interface design, and printed materials where a clear visual negation is required. It belongs to the Dingbats Unicode block and is commonly employed in combination with the Check Mark (✓, U+2713) to represent opposite states like pass/fail or yes/no.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2717 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ballot X |
| Block | Dingbats |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ✗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ✗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x9C 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2717 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002717 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2717 |
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 |