Symbols · Emoji 0.6
❎Cross Mark Button Emoji
It usually means "no" or "not okay." People use it to indicate they disagree or want to cancel something.
The ❎ emoji, also called the “cross mark” button, basically means “no,” “wrong,” or “cancel.”
- Unicode
- U+274E
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :negative_
squared_ cross_ mark: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the ❎ Cross Mark Button emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 6.
02 — Platforms
Cross Mark Button emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the cross mark button has been drawn in 3 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Cross Mark Button emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :negative_squared_cross_mark:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the cross mark button, code point U+274E.
04 — How to type
How to type the ❎ Cross Mark Button emoji
No picker to hand? The cross mark button can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Cross Mark Button emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the cross mark button as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Cross Mark Button emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around cross mark button for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What ❎ means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the cross mark button and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Around the world
What ❎ means in other countries
A button-styled version of the plain cross mark, reading slightly more like a UI action than a blunt rejection.
Mimics a close or dismiss button found in software interfaces.
Marks an option as unavailable or incorrect within a list of choices.
Used similarly to the plain cross mark, just with a slightly softer, more “interface” feel.
Before you send it: Use it for clearly “off” or unavailable items, same tone as ❌ but reads a touch less blunt.
09 — Apps
What ❎ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
10 — Related
Emojis similar to the Cross Mark Button emoji
Same family (other-symbol) — often confused with cross mark button or used alongside it.
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Collections ❎ belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:
11 — Difference
❎ vs ❌ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Cross Mark Button
Code: U+274E · added 2010
Shortcode: :negative_squared_cross_mark:
It usually means "no" or "not okay."
Unicode name: Cross Mark
Code: U+274C · added 2010
Shortcode: :x:
Generally, the ❌ emoji means “no,” “wrong,” or “incorrect.”
12 — History
Where the ❎ Cross Mark Button emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+274E never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
❎ existed there as
KDDI au E551.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Cross Mark Button was approved as U+274E and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so ❎ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
13 — FAQ