Technical information

Symbol
NameFour teardrop-spoked asterisk
Unicode numberU+2722
CategoryAsterisk
DescriptionThe Unicode character ✢, or U+2722, is known as the "Four Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk". It belongs to the "Dingbats" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a typographical symbol or glyph that is commonly used in a variety of contexts. It depicts an asterisk symbol with four spokes, each of which ends in a teardrop shape. It may be used in decorative elements, to draw attention to a particular section of text, or in various other contexts depending on the specific document or system. 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%A2
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x9C 0xA2
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10011100:10100010
UTF-160x2722
UTF-320x00002722

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u2722"
CSS Code\2722
JavaScript"\u2722"
Perl\x{2722}
Python 2u"\u2722"
Python 3\u2722
Ruby\u{2722}

Preview

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

Font size:

12px
16px
20px
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>&#10018;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\2722";
}

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