Cross Of Lorraine
Cross Of Lorraine has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ☨
- Unicode
- U+2628
About this symbol
The cross of Lorraine has two crossbars, the upper one shorter. Charles de Gaulle’s Free French forces took it as their emblem in 1940, to set themselves against the Nazi swastika, and it has also long been the symbol of campaigns against tuberculosis.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- CROSS OF LORRAINE
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Miscellaneous Symbols
- Unicode group
- Religious and political symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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