Latin Cross Emoji
✝️
What does the Latin Cross emoji mean?
1
A purple (occasionally blue) square featuring a Latin Christian cross at its center. Commonly used in Christian contexts, it also serves as a protective symbol against frightening or threatening forces.
2
The Latin cross resembles the Christian cross, but without the diagonal arm. It commonly represents faith and other religious themes.
Serving as a symbol of Christianity, it often stands for protection from evil and negative influences.
Also Known As
- ✝️ Christian Cross
Apple Name
- ✝️ Latin Cross
Unicode Name
- ✝️ Latin Cross
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Latin Cross emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
✝️ Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+271D U+FE0F
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Emojipedia, Discord
- works in Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %E2%9C%9D%EF%B8%8F |
| Punycode | xn--pci |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | E2 9C 9D EF B8 8F |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \u271D\uFE0F |
| C, C++, Python | \u271D\uFE0F |
| CSS | \271D \FE0F |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{271D}\u{FE0F} |
| Perl | \x{271D}\x{FE0F} |
| HTML hex | ✝️ |
| HTML dec | ✝️ |