†

See also: ✝ [U+271D LATIN CROSS], ✞ [U+271E SHADOWED WHITE LATIN CROSS], and ✟ [U+271F OUTLINED LATIN CROSS]

† U+2020, †
DAGGER
← ‟
[U+201F] 		General Punctuation ‡ →
[U+2021]

Translingual

Symbol

† (English symbol name dagger or obelus)

  1. Died, dead.
    Joseph Smith, †1956
    Joseph Smith, died in 1956
  2. (typography) Used to indicate a (second) footnote.
  3. (biology, linguistics) Extinct.
  4. (botany) Used to indicated a destroyed type specimen.
    • 1986, Charles Jeffrey, “The Senecioneae in East Tropical Africa: Notes on Compositae: IV”, in Kew Bulletin, volume 41, number 4 (in English), →DOI, page 906:
      "Type: Zaire, Ruwenzori, Butago valley, Mildbraed 2575 (holotype B†; isotype BR)."
  5. (cricket) Used in scorecards to indicate the wicketkeeper.
  6. (chess notation) Check.
    Synonym: +
  7. (textual criticism, palaeography) crux critica, crux desperationis, used around a corrupt part of a text

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