This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+2716 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The CLDR project calls this character “multiply” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: ×, cancel, multiplication, sign, x.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as monochrome character on conforming platforms. To enable colorful emoji display, you can combine it with Variation Selector-16: ✖️ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The multiplication sign (×), also known as the times sign or the dimension sign, is a mathematical symbol used to denote the operation of multiplication, which results in a product.
The symbol is also used in botany, in botanical hybrid names and the heavy goods vehicle industry, to calculate the amount of powered wheels.
The form is properly a four-fold rotationally symmetric saltire. The multiplication sign × is similar to a lowercase X (x) which is not a four-fold rotationally symmetric saltire.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
10006
UTF-8
E2 9C 96
UTF-16
27 16
UTF-32
00 00 27 16
URL-Quoted
%E2%9C%96
HTML hex reference
✖
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
✖
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
81 37 BE 30
LATEX
\ding{54}
RFC 5137
\u'2716'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u2716
C and C++
\u2716
C#
\u2716
CSS
\002716
Excel
=UNICHAR(10006)
Go
\u2716
JavaScript
\u2716
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{2716}
JSON
\u2716
Java
\u2716
Lua
\u{2716}
Matlab
char(10006)
Perl
"\x{2716}"
PHP
\u{2716}
PostgreSQL
U&'\2716'
PowerShell
`u{2716}
Python
\u2716
Ruby
\u{2716}
Rust
\u{2716}
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