✗

See also: Appendix:Variations of "x"

✗ U+2717, ✗ BALLOT X ← ✖ [U+2716] Dingbats ✘ → [U+2718]

☒ U+2612, ☒ BALLOT BOX WITH X ← ☑ [U+2611] Miscellaneous Symbols ☓ → [U+2613]

Character variations

✘ U+2718, ✘ HEAVY BALLOT X ← ✗ [U+2717] Dingbats ✙ → [U+2719]

🗴 U+1F5F4, 🗴 BALLOT SCRIPT X ← 🗳 [U+1F5F3] Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 🗵 → [U+1F5F5]

🗶 U+1F5F6, 🗶 BALLOT BOLD SCRIPT X ← 🗵 [U+1F5F5] Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 🗷 → [U+1F5F7]

Text style	Emoji style
❌︎	❌️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
❌ U+274C, ❌ CROSS MARK ← ❋ [U+274B] Dingbats ❍ → [U+274D]

Text style	Emoji style
❎︎	❎️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
❎ U+274E, ❎ NEGATIVE SQUARED CROSS MARK ← ❍ [U+274D] Dingbats ❏ → [U+274F]

🗵 U+1F5F5, 🗵 BALLOT BOX WITH SCRIPT X ← 🗴 [U+1F5F4] Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 🗶 → [U+1F5F6]

🗷 U+1F5F7, 🗷 BALLOT BOX WITH BOLD SCRIPT X ← 🗶 [U+1F5F6] Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 🗸 → [U+1F5F8]

Translingual

Symbol

✗

1. Indicates one's disagreement, as opposed to using the ✓ (“checkmark”) to state one's agreement or preference. Sometimes, a ballot (☐) can be filled with the X mark: ☒.

   Select which ice cream flavors you like: (in this example, the surveyee only likes vanilla, among the given options)

   Chocolate ✗

   Strawberry ✗

   Vanilla ✓

2. Indicates one's preference or vote, as opposed to leaving a blank space or ballot.

   ☒ Candidate 1

   ☐ Candidate 2

   ☐ Candidate 3

3. Indicates incorrectness. See also: ✓ (“indicates correctness”).

   2+2=4 ✓

   2+2=5 ✗

Usage notes

In English, this is called X mark, or an X-ed out box.

Synonyms

• ✓ (“indicates one's preference or vote”)

Antonyms

• ✓ (“indicates correctness”)
• ○

See also

• ☐

Further reading

• X mark on Wikipedia.Wikipedia