Cross symbols ✝ copy and paste

Symbol	Official Unicode name	What it is
✝	LATIN CROSS	The common Christian cross, with a longer lower arm
✞ ✟ 🕇 🕆	SHADOWED WHITE / OUTLINED / HEAVY / WHITE LATIN CROSS	Decorative styles of the same cross
☦	ORTHODOX CROSS	Three bars, the lowest one slanted; used by Eastern Orthodox churches
✠	MALTESE CROSS	Eight-pointed cross associated with the Knights of Malta
☨	CROSS OF LORRAINE	Two horizontal bars
☩	CROSS OF JERUSALEM	A cross with short crossbars at each end
✙ ✚ ✛ ✜	Greek cross styles	Four equal arms
☥	ANKH	Ancient Egyptian symbol of life
✝️	Latin cross emoji	The same ✝ shown as an emoji

The detail panel shows the code point and the Unicode version each character was added in. Most crosses have been in Unicode since version 1.1; the heavy and white Latin crosses 🕇 🕆 came later and may not display on older devices.

The dagger looks like a small cross but it's a punctuation mark with several jobs:

• Footnotes: in American typesetting the traditional order of reference marks is the asterisk *, then †, ‡ and §. Use † for the second footnote on a page and ‡ for the third.
• Death dates: in genealogy, and very commonly in German and Central European obituaries, † before a year means died, as in †1998. Where the dagger stands next to a name in those traditions it marks someone who has passed away.
• Science: biologists put † next to the name of an extinct species.

	Windows	Mac	Word (type, then Alt + X)	HTML
†	Alt + 0134	Option + T	2020	†
‡	Alt + 0135	Option + Shift + 7	2021	‡

Windows Alt codes need the numeric keypad; the Mac shortcuts are for the US (ABC) keyboard layout.

The cross of Lorraine ☨ has two horizontal bars. It's the emblem of the historic region of Lorraine, it became the symbol of the Free French during World War II, and a double-barred cross is also used by lung-health charities in their campaigns against tuberculosis.

A very similar shape, the patriarchal cross, appears on the coats of arms of Hungary and Slovakia. Heraldic artists draw it with its own proportions, but Unicode has no separate character for it, so ☨ is the usual stand-in when you need a double cross in text. Don't swap it for ☦: the Orthodox cross has a third, slanted bar near the bottom and means something different.

The page also groups religious and spiritual symbols you might need in the same text:

• ✡ Star of David, 🕎 menorah
• ☪ star and crescent
• ☸ wheel of dharma, 🕉 om
• ☬ Khanda (ADI SHAKTI), the emblem of Sikhism
• ☯ yin yang, ☮ peace symbol
• ⛪ church, 🛐 place of worship, 🙏 folded hands, 📿 prayer beads

The turned dagger ⸸ looks like an upside-down cross. It's popular in goth and metal artwork, while in Christian tradition an inverted cross is also known as the cross of Saint Peter. Context decides how people read it, so think about your audience before using it.

These are meaningful symbols for many people. Using them in memorials, holiday greetings or church newsletters is exactly what they're for; using them as random decoration in jokes can come across as disrespectful.

Only the dagger and double dagger have Windows Alt codes. For the rest:

• Microsoft Word: type the code and press Alt + X, for example 271D for ✝ or 2626 for ☦.
• Mac: Control + Command + Space opens the Character Viewer; search for cross.
• Windows 10 and 11: Windows + . opens the emoji panel, which includes ✝️ and ☦️.
• Linux: Ctrl + Shift + U, then 271d, then Space.
• Web: ✝ in HTML, \271D in CSS, \u271D in JavaScript.

✝ and ☦ can appear either as plain text or as emoji, depending on the app. Click a symbol here to copy exactly the version you see, then add it to the text box at the bottom if you want to build a longer line, such as a name with ✝ and the dates.