❎

Cross Mark Button Emoji ❎

An X inside a green square — an odd color choice for a symbol that means 'no' — the cross-mark-button emoji is a bigger, boxier cross mark. It's used to cancel, decline, or reject an option, especially in lists and menus where the square shape lines up neatly with the check-mark button beside it.

What ❎ means

A green square box similar to the one in the ✅ Check Mark Button, characterized with an 'X' mark in white on the top surface.

The ❎ Cross Mark Button emoji represents a negative pressable button. This emoji may signify a 'negative marking' or a negative point.

How and when to use it

❎ is the opposite of the checkmark button, but it is green as well; contradicting the common perception of 'green' to be 'right'. Hence, ❎ would suggest something that's essentially a variant of ✅.
Some examples for the previous example could be - "That's the thing, right? There is no right or wrong ✅ ❎ when it comes to growth" or "Wrong is subjective ❎ What's punishable to you is redeeming to me".
Since ❎ is not something that's wrong but something that's subjectively unrecommended, you may use it while referring to a deviation.
To make the previous point clearer, here are a few examples - "For the long run, I'd suggest ✅ organic traffic over ❎ paid traffic" or
"✅ Morning workout routine
❎ Evening workout routine"
Besides, if you wish to maintain the positive vibe of a post/repost or the colour code, you could use ❎ as a reference to something that's not offered, included, or generally supported in any way. Like, "❎ No meat served" or
"✅ Organic clothing
❎ Animal-based clothing"

Other Names

❎ 'X' Mark Green Button
❎ Cross Mark Green Button
❎ Green 'X' Button
❎ Cross Button
❎ X Button
❎ Negative Squared Button
❎ X Mark

The lowdown

Category: Symbols › other-symbol
Codepoints: U+274E
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :negative_squared_cross_mark:
Keywords: ×, button, cross, mark, multiplication, multiply, square, x

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.