Latin cross
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- Shortcode
:latin_cross:- Unicode
U+271D- HTML
✝- CSS
\271D- JavaScript
"\u{271D}"- URL
%E2%9C%9D%EF%B8%8F
What ✝️ means
The Latin cross, the main symbol of Christianity. It means faith, prayer and Christ.
Christians use it for church, Easter, Christmas, prayers and blessings. It also appears in memorials next to a name or 🙏, and in bios to show faith.
Facts
Latin cross ✝️ is an emoji in the symbols category, under religion. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 7.0 (2014). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :latin_cross:. People also look for it with words like “Christian”, “christ”, “cross”, or “latin”.
Timeline
- 2014Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 7.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.