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✝️Latin Cross Emoji
✝️ latin cross — U+271D U+FE0F, added in Unicode 7.0 (2014). Unicode groups it with the other 13 religious symbols emojis under Symbols.
What ✝️ latin cross means
Faith, holidays and identity markers in bios, where a single symbol often stands in for an entire tradition. Greetings around Eid, Diwali, Hanukkah, Easter and Vaisakhi rely on this group. The khanda 🪯, added in Emoji 15.0 in 2023, was the first Sikh symbol in the standard. ☮️ and ⚛️ sit here as well despite belonging more to politics and science.
Unicode tags this one christ, christian and cross and files it under Symbols → Religious Symbols.
Copy variants
latin cross carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How ✝️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- ✝U+271Dlatin cross
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+271D U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | ✝️ | |
| HTML decimal | ✝️ | |
| CSS | \271D\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{271D}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0000271D\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \u271D\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{271d}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{271D}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{271D}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %E2%9C%9D%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 9C 9D EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | 271D FE0F | |
| Base64 | 4pyd77iP | |
| Decimal | 10013 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 7.0 (2014) | |
Keywords
- christ
- christian
- cross
- latin
- religion
Appears in these collections
How to type ✝️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “latin cross”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “christ”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type271dand Enter. - HTML — paste
✝️.
How ✝️ renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- ✝️Apple
- ✝️Segoe
- ✝️Noto
- ✝️System
Frequently asked questions
What does the ✝️ latin cross emoji mean?+
✝️ is the latin cross emoji, tagged christ, christian and cross. Faith, holidays and identity markers in bios, where a single symbol often stands in for an entire tradition. Greetings around Eid, Diwali, Hanukkah, Easter and Vaisakhi rely on this group. The khanda 🪯, added in Emoji 15.0 in 2023, was the first Sikh symbol in the standard. ☮️ and ⚛️ sit here as well despite belonging more to politics and science.
What is the Unicode code for ✝️?+
latin cross is U+271D U+FE0F. In HTML that is ✝️, in CSS \271D\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{271D}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the ✝️ emoji added?+
latin cross got its emoji presentation in Unicode 7.0 (2014). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Religious Symbols in Symbols.
Added in Unicode 7.0 (2014)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ✝️ latin cross.