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Last reviewed on August 3, 2026
The Ballot X symbol (✗) is one of the checkmarks and crosses characters in the AllSymbols catalog. It belongs to the family of Unicode characters used as positive/negative status indicators — checkmarks and crosses, ballot boxes, and the heavy multiplication x. They are heavily used in to-do lists, comparison tables, and status columns.
Pair check and cross at the same weight: heavy with heavy, thin with thin. A thin check next to a heavy cross reads as “mild yes, strong no” even if you didn’t mean it that way. For checkboxes that show before-and-after state, the empty/checked/x-ed ballot box trio is the cleanest.
In Unicode, Ballot X sits at code point U+2717. Web pages reference it with the HTML numeric entity ✗; CSS rules reference it as a quoted hex escape (the four-digit code prefixed with a backslash); in JavaScript and most modern source-code contexts you can either paste the literal character or use a Unicode escape with the same hex digits.
In tables where a check or cross carries the status by itself, add a hidden text label or ARIA equivalent so screen-reader users hear “yes” or “no” rather than the Unicode glyph name.
If Ballot X isn’t quite what you need, the Checkmarks and Crosses page lists every related character on the site — including Check Mark and Ballot Box X. The related-symbols grid below also surfaces the closest sibling characters.
Type 2717 then press Alt+X in Word; in other apps, copy ✗ from this page and paste it. You can also copy ✗ straight from this page — it pastes into any app.
Press Ctrl+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for the symbol by name.
The ballot x symbol is Unicode code point U+2717. In HTML, use ✗ or the numeric reference ✗.