†

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

Etymology

Derives from the obelus, ⟨⸓⟩. Originally shaped like a dagger, it is now sometimes identical in shape to a Latin cross.

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
8. (music) A pointing mark in Anglican chant, used in the margin to indicate a nonstandard place where a verse should be sung with the second part of a two-part chant; typically used for the final verse of a psalm with an odd number of verses.

   Coordinate terms: |, ', :, *, ·, —, ‖

9. (quantum mechanics, superscript) Hermitian conjugate of

   $(AB|\psi \rangle )^{\dagger }=\langle \psi |B^{\dagger }A^{\dagger }$

See also

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