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✗

1. Indicates one's disagreement, as opposed to using the ✓ (“checkmark”) to state one's agreement or preference. Sometimes, a ballot (☐) can be filled with the X mark: ☒.

   Select which ice cream flavors you like: (in this example, the surveyee only likes vanilla, among the given options)

   Chocolate ✗

   Strawberry ✗

   Vanilla ✓

2. Indicates one's preference or vote, as opposed to leaving a blank space or ballot.

   ☒ Candidate 1

   ☐ Candidate 2

   ☐ Candidate 3

3. Indicates incorrectness. See also: ✓ (“indicates correctness”).

   2+2=4 ✓

   2+2=5 ✗

In English, this is called X mark, or an X-ed out box.

• ✓ (“indicates one's preference or vote”)

• ✓ (“indicates correctness”)
• ○

• ☐

• X mark on Wikipedia.Wikipedia