This character is a Otro símbolo and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+2716 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The CLDR project calls this character “multiplicación” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: ×, cancelar, marca, prohibido, signo de multiplicación, x.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as monochrome character on conforming platforms. To enable colorful emoji display, you can combine it with Glifo para U+FE0FVariation Selector-16: ✖️ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
El Wikipedia tiene la siguiente información acerca de este punto de código:
The multiplication sign (×), also known as the times sign or the dimension sign, is a mathematical symbol used to denote the operation of multiplication, which results in a product.
The symbol is also used in botany, in botanical hybrid names and the heavy goods vehicle industry, to calculate the amount of powered wheels.
The form is properly a four-fold rotationally symmetric saltire. The multiplication sign × is similar to a lowercase X (x) which is not a four-fold rotationally symmetric saltire.