Latin Capital Letter X
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 88 on the numeric keypad to insert latin capital letter x.
- Alt code
- Alt+88
- HTML entity
- X
- Unicode
- U+0058
About this symbol
X came into Latin from the western Greek alphabet, where it stood for ks, the sound it still has in box. In eastern Greek the same shape became chi, a ch sound, which is why Greek Χ and Latin X look alike but sound different.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LATIN CAPITAL LETTER X
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- Uppercase Latin alphabet
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.