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Technical information

Symbol☪
NameStar and crescent
Unicode numberU+262A
CategoryStarsReligious and political symbols
DescriptionThe Unicode character ☪, or U+262A, is known as the "Star and Crescent". It belongs to the "Miscellaneous Symbols" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This symbol is a traditional emblem of the religion of Islam and features a crescent with a star. It's commonly used to represent Islamic culture, the Muslim community, or the religion of Islam itself. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in.

Encoding

HTML Entity☪
HTML Entity (hex)☪
URL Escape Code%E2%98%AA
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x98 0xAA
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10011000:10101010
UTF-160x262A
UTF-320x0000262A

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u262A"
CSS Code\262A
JavaScript"\u262A"
Perl\x{262A}
Python 2u"\u262A"
Python 3\u262A
Ruby\u{262A}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ☪ in sentence and in bold like this ☪ and in italic like this ☪.

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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input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9770;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\262A";
}

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

References