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☦️Orthodox Cross Emoji

Unicode added ☦️ orthodox cross in Emoji 1.0 (2015), filed under Symbols → Religious Symbols. Its codepoint is U+2626 U+FE0F, and it is tagged christian, cross and orthodox.

What ☦️ orthodox 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 christian, cross and orthodox and files it under Symbols → Religious Symbols.

Copy variants

orthodox 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+2626orthodox cross
·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+2626 U+FE0F`
HTML hex	`☦️`
HTML decimal	`☦️`
CSS	`\2626\FE0F`
JavaScript	`\u{2626}\u{FE0F}`
Python	`\U00002626\U0000FE0F`
Java / C#	`\u2626\uFE0F`
Rust	`\u{2626}\u{fe0f}`
Swift	`\u{2626}\u{FE0F}`
PHP	`\u{2626}\u{FE0F}`
URL encoded	`%E2%98%A6%EF%B8%8F`
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 98 A6 EF B8 8F`
UTF-16 bytes	`2626 FE0F`
Base64	`4pim77iP`
Decimal	`9766 65039`
Introduced	Emoji 1.0 (2015)

Keywords

christian
cross
orthodox
religion

Appears in these collections

Cross

How to type ☦️

Windows — press Win + . and search “orthodox cross”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “christian”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 2626 and 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 ☦️ orthodox cross emoji mean?+

☦️ is the orthodox cross emoji, tagged christian, cross and orthodox. 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 ☦️?+

orthodox cross is U+2626 U+FE0F. In HTML that is ☦️, in CSS \2626\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{2626}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the ☦️ emoji added?+

orthodox cross got its emoji presentation in Emoji 1.0 (2015). 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 Emoji 1.0 (2015)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ☦️ orthodox cross.