✻
Technical information
| Symbol | ✻ | |
| Name | Teardrop-spoked asterisk | |
| Unicode number | U+273B | |
| Category | Asterisk | |
| Description | The Unicode character ✻, or U+273B, is known as the "Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk". It belongs to the "Dingbats" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a graphic representation of an asterisk, but it is stylistically distinct from a regular asterisk due to its teardrop-spoked design. It can be used as a decorative symbol in texts or for other design purposes. 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%9C%BB | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x9C 0xBB | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10011100:10111011 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x273B | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000273B |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u273B" | |
| CSS Code | \273B | |
| JavaScript | "\u273B" | |
| Perl | \x{273B} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u273B" | |
| Python 3 | \u273B | |
| Ruby | \u{273B} |
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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100
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200
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300
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400
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500
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600
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700
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800
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900
HTML Forms and Input
input
disabled input
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select
button
button
Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>✻</span>
span {
content: "\273B";
}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