✼
Technical information
| Symbol | ✼ | |
| Name | Open centre teardrop-spoked asterisk | |
| Unicode number | U+273C | |
| Category | Asterisk | |
| Description | The Unicode character ✼, or U+273C, is known as the "Open Centre Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk". It belongs to the "Dingbats" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character visually represents an asterisk that has teardrop-shaped spokes radiating from an open center. The spokes have a unique design resembling droplets or teardrops. Typically, an asterisk is used for indicating footnotes or other references in text, but this particular design, with its decorative spokes, is more often employed for ornamental or artistic purposes. The specific appearance of this character can vary based on the platform, application, or font being used, and may also be influenced by the chosen typography. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ✼ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ✼ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%9C%BC | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x9C 0xBC | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10011100:10111100 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x273C | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000273C |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u273C" | |
| CSS Code | \273C | |
| JavaScript | "\u273C" | |
| Perl | \x{273C} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u273C" | |
| Python 3 | \u273C | |
| Ruby | \u{273C} |
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: "\273C";
}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