# ✝

| Text style | Emoji style |
| ✝︎ | ✝️ |
| Text style is forced with ⟨&#xFE0E;⟩ and emoji style with ⟨&#xFE0F;⟩. ||
| ✝ U+271D, &#10013; LATIN CROSS ← ✜ [U+271C] Dingbats ✞ → [U+271E] ||
| 🕇 | U+1F547, &#128327; HEAVY LATIN CROSS |
| ← 🕆 [U+1F546] | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs | 🕈 → [U+1F548] |
| 🕆 | U+1F546, &#128326; WHITE LATIN CROSS |
| ← 🕅 [U+1F545] | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs | 🕇 → [U+1F547] |
| ✟ | U+271F, &#10015; OUTLINED LATIN CROSS |
| ← ✞ [U+271E] | Dingbats | ✠ → [U+2720] |
| ✞ | U+271E, &#10014; SHADOWED WHITE LATIN CROSS |
| ← ✝ [U+271D] | Dingbats | ✟ → [U+271F] |

## Translingual
### Symbol origin 1

One of several design variations of a gibbet, an instrument of execution, used in Ancient Rome; the horizontal crossbeam was used to tie the victim's hands and arms and stretch them outwards.

#### Etymology

The Christianity sense (sense 1) was first used by early Christians in the 1st century AD; the Latin cross design represents the cross upon which Jesus was crucified around AD 33 (see also cruxifiction of Jesus on WikipediaWikipedia ). It was popularised as a universal symbol for Christianity after circa AD 350, overtaking symbols like the ichthys.
The death senses (sense 2) might be derived from the cross as a method of execution in the form of crucifixion, while the grave subsense (sense 2.1) is probably derived from the common use of a Latin cross as a grave marker to indicate that the buried individual adhered to Christianity: reinterpreted as a generic symbol of a grave.
The fleuron sense (sense 3) is derived from sense 1.

#### Description

Depiction of a Latin cross: a cross consisting of a vertical bar intersected by a shorter horizontal one above its midpoint.

#### Symbol

✝ (English symbol name Latin cross or Christian cross)
* Represents Christianity; an aspect thereof, such as Christendom, the Church, faith, prayer, blessings, clergy, God or Jesus.
** (in stricter terms) Represents Western Christianity, especially Catholicism and certain denominations of Protestantism.
** Denotes a Christian church, including an abbey or cathedral.
** Indicates one's commitment to the Christian faith; belief in, or devotion to, Christianity; trust in God; a Christian.
** Of a book cover or icon, indicates an edition or translation of the Bible; the Bible.
** (Christianity) The crucifixion of Jesus on the cross; also, His subsequent resurrection; the Passion; eternal life.
** (Internet slang) Indicates a passage or verse from the Bible.
* Senses relating to death:
** Indicates the site of a burial or monument to someone who has died; a grave marker or memorial.
** Alternative form of † (“died, dead”).
** (sometimes Internet slang) Relating to the deceased or death, generally; died, dead, dying; rest in peace; a graveyard, mass burial or mausoleum.
* A decorative fleuron, used especially in Christian literature.
* (literal) A cross.
* (Internet slang, as an emoji) Holy.
    ✝️🐄Holy cow!

##### Usage notes

* Predated by several visually similar yet unrelated symbols such as the Etruscan letter 𐌕 (t, “te”) and the Egyptian symbol ankh (𓋹).
* (Sense 1.1): used especially in the context of being distinguished from other denominations of Christianity, like Eastern Orthodoxy—which is often represented by ☦.

### Symbol origin 2

A stylisation, but compare the Etruscan letter 𐌕 (t, “te”).

#### Etymology

The emoji ✝ (representing a Latin cross) looks similar to the letter T.

#### Letter

* Alternative form of T (“twentieth letter of the English alphabet”), used in some fonts or (Internet slang, sometimes humorous) as an emoji, stylistically.