The multiplication sign ( × ) was a bit too small for what I wanted and increasing the font size broke other things, so I found these larger alternatives:
Instead of giving you fish I will give you dynamite.
When working online if you need to figure out what Unicode specific character is you can use following javascript (you might also need to add .val() or .text() or [0] after selector dependent on situation):
$('yourTextselector').charCodeAt(0).toString(16) // charCodeAt is the position of character in text you selected.
Now that you have your answer, here is an additional helpful trick when working with Unicode on Windows OS.
Open up Wordpad
Type in the Unicode value such as 2715
With cursor next to what you typed, press ALT+X on the keyboard.
It will show the visual representation of that character. This trick works in reverse as well. If you do a copy and paste of the visual representation and then hit ALT+X it will show you the numeric value.