Ballot Box with Script X refers to a checkbox or ballot-square symbol marked with a handwritten, cursive-style X. It belongs to the family of ballot and checking symbols that were discussed in Unicode and emoji-adjacent contexts, especially when many legacy dingbat and office-symbol characters were being evaluated for possible emoji-style use. Although related ballot symbols exist in Unicode, this concept never became a widely supported, officially approved RGI emoji with a standard colorful emoji presentation on major platforms. It is best understood as a proposed or symbol-candidate-style idea rather than a familiar Apple-style emoji people can reliably send today.
The intended meaning would likely have included voting, rejection, choosing an option, marking something wrong, crossing off a task, or expressing a firm “no.” Online, it could have served as a more formal or administrative alternative to ❌, ☒, or a checked box, useful in polls, forms, meme verdicts, cancellation jokes, and political commentary. People may have wanted it because ballot boxes and checkbox marks are common in everyday interfaces, surveys, elections, school grading, and to-do lists, but emoji keyboards have historically offered only a limited set of check and cross symbols. If shown in Apple/iOS-style concept art, it would probably have appeared as a small white or light-gray square ballot box with a dark outline and a flowing black or red script X drawn across it, possibly with the glossy, rounded styling common to older emoji mockups. There is no well-known official Apple emoji design for this specific candidate, so such imagery should be treated as conceptual rather than an approved platform rendering.
Disqus Leave a comment!
Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was one of the "suggested emojis" the Unicode group unveiled in June 2014 [article], however, it has been, and still is, up to the companies who support emoji in their operating systems to provide not only images but also an algorithm to replace the emoji code into the emoji image.
