Heavy ballot X

U+2718

A bold, slightly hand-drawn cross for “no” or “wrong”. Pair it with a word, because a mark alone can be unclear to screen reader users.

Official name
HEAVY BALLOT X
Unicode block
Dingbats
Added in
Unicode 1.1
HTML
HTML hex
CSS content
JavaScript
UTF-8 bytes
E2 9C 98
Keywords
tick, choice, yes, no, vote
Categories
Checks & choices

The Unicode standard defines this character, but your device’s fonts decide how it looks, so it may differ on other screens.

Data: Unicode 16.0, Emoji 16.0.