Marking wrong answers or incorrect statements
Marking wrong answers or incorrect statements.
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❌ Cross Mark Emoji
The ❌ Cross Mark emoji depicts a red X symbol, commonly used to indicate wrong answers, error states, rejection, cancellation, or negative responses.
QUICK FACTS
- Official name
- Cross Mark
- Category
- Symbols
- Subcategory
- Other Symbol
- Unicode
- U+274C
- Emoji version
- 0.6
- Unicode version
- 17.0
What Does Mean?
The ❌ Cross Mark emoji represents errors, incorrect choices, cancellation, rejection, or disapproval. It is sent when marking something wrong, rejecting a proposal, canceling plans, or saying 'no'.
Quick Meaning
The ❌ Cross Mark emoji depicts a red X symbol, commonly used to indicate wrong answers, error states, rejection, cancellation, or negative responses.
Use Cases
How People Use ❌
Common conversational contexts and messaging situations.
Indicating canceled appointments or events
Indicating canceled appointments or events.
Expressing rejection or negative votes
Expressing rejection or negative votes.
Real Messages
❌ Emoji Examples
Realistic message examples demonstrating natural placement for ❌.
“That option is incorrect ❌”
“Meeting canceled for today ❌”
“Application was rejected ❌”
“Do not proceed with this step ❌”
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Lookup Data
Names, Keywords and Search Terms
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Official Name
Cross Mark
Subcategory: Other SymbolAliases & Common Names
- cross mark
- red x
- x mark
- wrong mark
Keywords & Search Terms
- cross mark
- cross
- x
- red x
- wrong
- error
- no
- cancel
- rejected
Developer Reference
❌ Emoji Codes
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FormatCode ValueAction
Unicode
U+274CCode points
U+274CUTF-8 bytes
0xE2 0x9D 0x8CUTF-16
\u274CHTML decimal entity
❌HTML hexadecimal entity
❌JavaScript escape
\u{274C}CSS escape
\274C Python string
\u274CDiscovery
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Microsoft Fluent
MIT License
Google Noto
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Twemoji
CC BY 4.0
OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
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FAQ
Questions About ❌
Frequently asked questions about meaning, copying, PNG export, and Unicode data.
The ❌ Cross Mark emoji depicts a red X symbol, commonly used to indicate wrong answers, error states, rejection, cancellation, or negative responses.
Yes. When licensed artwork is available, choose a style and download 1× (128×128), 2× (256×256), 4× (512×512), or 8× (1024×1024) PNG artwork. EmojiMint shows the selected provider, background, and exact pixel dimensions before download.
❌ is a symbolic character for Cross Mark used in signage, formatting, alerts, and instructions.
The Unicode code point for ❌ is U+274C.
❌ is usually the more general choice. ✖️ Multiply is different because represents mathematical multiplication arithmetic rather than a rejection cross mark.
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