Technical information

Symbol
NameLeft half black star
Unicode numberU+2BE8
CategoryHalf star characters
DescriptionThe Unicode character ⯨, or U+2BE8, is known as "Left Half Black Star". It is part of the "Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows" block and is categorized under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character, as the name suggests, is a graphic symbol that depicts a star with its left half filled in black. Its uses can vary significantly based on context but it is often used in design or to create visual effects in text, whether digital or printed.

Encoding

HTML Entity⯨
HTML Entity (hex)⯨
URL Escape Code%E2%AF%A8
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0xAF 0xA8
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10101111:10101000
UTF-160x2BE8
UTF-320x00002BE8

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u2BE8"
CSS Code\2BE8
JavaScript"\u2BE8"
Perl\x{2BE8}
Python 2u"\u2BE8"
Python 3\u2BE8
Ruby\u{2BE8}

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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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>&#11240;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\2BE8";
}

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