✸
Technical information
| Symbol | ✸ | |
| Name | Heavy eight pointed rectilinear black star | |
| Unicode number | U+2738 | |
| Category | Stars | |
| Description | The Unicode character ✸, or U+2738, is known as the "Heavy Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black Star". It belongs to the "Dingbats" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character visually represents an eight-pointed star, where each of the points is straight and of equal length, forming a symmetrical design. The "heavy" descriptor suggests that this star is solidly filled in with black, as opposed to being outlined. This symbol can be used for various decorative purposes, such as in graphic designs, textual embellishments, or anywhere a bold star symbol is desired. The precise appearance of this star can vary depending on the platform or application it's used in and may also be influenced by the font and typography selected. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ✸ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ✸ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%9C%B8 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x9C 0xB8 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10011100:10111000 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x2738 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00002738 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u2738" | |
| CSS Code | \2738 | |
| JavaScript | "\u2738" | |
| Perl | \x{2738} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u2738" | |
| Python 3 | \u2738 | |
| Ruby | \u{2738} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ✸ in sentence and in bold like this ✸ and in italic like this ✸.
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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: "\2738";
}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