Find more about the U+2720 Unicode character below, including its properties, usage, and encoding details.
| Codepoint | U+2720 |
|---|---|
| Name | Maltese Cross |
| Category | Other Symbol (So) |
| Script | Common |
| Block | Dingbats |
| Plane | Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) |
| Version | Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993) |
| Numeric Character Reference | ✠ |
| Hexadecimal Numeric Character Reference | ✠ |
| HTML Named Character Reference (HTML Named Entity) | ✠✠ |
| CSS Character Reference (CSS Escape Code) | \2720 |
| Links | Plain https://everychar.com/code/U+2720Markdown [U+2720](https://everychar.com/code/U+2720) |
| Notes | Historically, the Maltese cross took many forms; the shape shown in the Zapf Dingbats is similar to one known as the Cross Formée. |