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Technical information
| Symbol | ☆ | |
| Name | White star | |
| Unicode number | U+2606 | |
| Category | Stars | |
| Description | The Unicode character ☆, or U+2606, is named "White Star". It belongs to the "Miscellaneous Symbols" block, which includes a diverse set of symbols that are not categorized in other specific blocks. This character falls under the "Symbol, Other" category. As its name implies, it visually represents a star, specifically a five-pointed one, rendered in white (or empty, not filled in) within a square glyph area. This star is often used in various contexts across different cultures and domains. It can signify night, space, and astronomy, and it's also widely used in ratings systems, to represent scores or levels of achievement, or to emphasize certain text or elements in a document or webpage. The specific symbolism can vary greatly based on context. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ☆ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ☆ | |
| HTML Entity (named) | ☆ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%98%86 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x98 0x86 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10011000:10000110 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x2606 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00002606 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u2606" | |
| CSS Code | \2606 | |
| JavaScript | "\u2606" | |
| Perl | \x{2606} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u2606" | |
| Python 3 | \u2606 | |
| Ruby | \u{2606} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ☆ in sentence and in bold like this ☆ and in italic like this ☆.
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Font size:
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28px
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
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disabled input
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button
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>☆</span>
span {
content: "\2606";
}The symbol in different fonts
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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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