TikZ Node with multiple shapes

Question

My use case is drawing a ticked box in line with normal text like this: "Hello ☒ World." (unicode example, your mileage may vary). One solution I managed to come up with is the following rather verbose expression.

Hello \tikz{
      \node[draw,rectangle,minimum size=1.5ex] {};
      \node[draw,cross out,minimum size=1.5ex] {};
} World.

Is there a more elegant way to describe this picture, for example by having the two shapes superimposed on one node?

Alternatively, is there any cross out path operation akin to rectangle, allowing something like the following?

\tikz \draw rectangle (1.5ex,1.5ex) cross out (0,0);

(N.B. This issue is mostly of aesthetic and academic nature, since the first example does indeed work as expected.)

Clarification: This is single-use so creating a new command is not what I'm after (thanks Peter).

Answer 1

Some explanations about the question and my answer : A node has only one shape, so to modify a shape associated to a node, you can define a new shape with \pgfdeclareshape and it's possible for example to combine two defined shapes and another solution is to modify the shape used. In the next code I added two lines to the rectangle. It's possible to do that with the path picture option. With this option, it's possible to use some anchors of the bounding box but others solutions are possible.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}

   \tikzset{squarecross/.style={draw,path picture={% 
      \draw[black]
       (path picture bounding box.north west) -- (path picture bounding box.south east) 
       (path picture bounding box.south west) -- (path picture bounding box.north east);
      }}}   

\begin{document}
Hello  \tikz \node[squarecross] (mynode) {}; World.
\end{document} 

Answer 2

Not sure if this is any better, but you could just draw this shape:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}

\newcommand{\CrossOut}{%
    \tikz [x=1.5ex,y=1.5ex] 
        \draw (0,0) -- (1,0) -- (1,1) -- (0,1) -- cycle
         (0,0) -- (1,1)
         (0,1) -- (1,0)
        ;
}%

\begin{document}
Hello \CrossOut World.
\end{document}

Answer 3

Non-Tikz solution, using a \XBox symbol from the wasysym package, which I think is more elegant.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{wasysym}
\begin{document}
\CheckedBox  \Square  \Huge \XBox
\end{document}

The advantage of a non-Tikz solution is that the symbol can scale as per the font-size and is much simpler.

Answer 4

For the sake of completeness, here's how I did it in the end. After some more thought, the following (based on Peter's answer) was the shortest solution for my single-use ticked box that I could think of.

Hello \tikz[x=1.1ex,y=1.1ex] \draw rectangle (1,1) -- (0,0) (1,0) -- (0,1); World.

Answer 5

Yet one more:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\begin{document}
Hello $\boxtimes$ Word
\end{document}

And a lowercase version without packages:

\documentclass{article}
\def\BoxedTimes{\fboxrule=.04em\fboxsep=-0.11em\fbox{\makebox[.725em]{$\times$}}}
\begin{document}
Hello \BoxedTimes{} Word 
\end{document}