Technical information

Symbol
NameEight pointed pinwheel star
Unicode numberU+2735
CategoryStars
DescriptionThe Unicode character ✵, or U+2735, is known as the "Eight Pointed Pinwheel Star". It belongs to the "Dingbats" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. As the name suggests, it depicts a stylized star with eight points, reminiscent of a pinwheel in its design. The symbol is generally used to signify something sparkling, outstanding, or of high quality, often seen in celebratory or festive contexts. It's also used in a variety of decorative and artistic capacities due to its visually appealing design.

Encoding

HTML Entity✵
HTML Entity (hex)✵
URL Escape Code%E2%9C%B5
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x9C 0xB5
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10011100:10110101
UTF-160x2735
UTF-320x00002735

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u2735"
CSS Code\2735
JavaScript"\u2735"
Perl\x{2735}
Python 2u"\u2735"
Python 3\u2735
Ruby\u{2735}

Preview

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

Font size:

12px
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28px
36px
48px
72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#10037;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\2735";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References