Multiplication Sign
On Windows, hold Alt and type 0215 on the numeric keypad to insert multiplication sign.
- Alt code
- Alt+0215
- HTML entity
- ×
- Unicode
- U+00D7
About this symbol
William Oughtred introduced the cross for multiplication in his Clavis Mathematicae in 1631. Gottfried Leibniz disliked it because it looked too much like the letter x, and preferred a raised dot, which is still common in algebra.
The multiplication sign is a separate character from the letter x, which people often type in its place.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- MULTIPLICATION SIGN
- Also called
- Z notation Cartesian product
- Type
- Maths symbol
- Unicode block
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Unicode group
- Mathematical operator
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Windows Extended Codes: 0128 to 0255 chart for related characters.