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Last reviewed on May 7, 2026
The Negative Squared Cross 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, Negative Squared Cross sits at code point U+274E. 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 Negative Squared Cross isn’t quite what you need, the Checkmarks and Crosses page lists every related character on the site — including Check Mark and Ballot Box. The related-symbols grid below also surfaces the closest sibling characters.