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Technical information
| Symbol | ✱ | |
| Name | Heavy asterisk | |
| Unicode number | U+2731 | |
| Category | Asterisk | |
| Description | The Unicode character ✱, or U+2731, is known as the "Heavy Asterisk". It is part of the "Dingbats" block and belongs to the "Other, Symbol" category in the Unicode standard. The heavy asterisk is an enlarged and bolded version of the typical asterisk symbol. The asterisk traditionally has six arms that spread out from a central point, though variations can exist. This symbol is often used for emphasizing or drawing attention to a specific piece of text in written material, it may also indicate a footnote or annotation. The "heavy" in its name indicates that this version of the asterisk symbol is designed to be more visually prominent and stands out more clearly against background text or imagery. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ✱ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ✱ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%9C%B1 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x9C 0xB1 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10011100:10110001 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x2731 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00002731 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u2731" | |
| CSS Code | \2731 | |
| JavaScript | "\u2731" | |
| Perl | \x{2731} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u2731" | |
| Python 3 | \u2731 | |
| Ruby | \u{2731} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ✱ in sentence and in bold like this ✱ and in italic like this ✱.
input-group
Font size:
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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
input
disabled input
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select
button
button
Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>✱</span>
span {
content: "\2731";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana