Technical information

Symbol
NameBlack star outlined heavy
Unicode numberU+272E
CategoryStars
DescriptionThe Unicode character ✮, or U+272E, is known as the "Black Star Outlined Heavy". It belongs to the "Dingbats" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character depicts a stylized star with a black center and a heavy outline, typically used as a decorative symbol or for emphasis. In certain contexts, it can also represent various star-like concepts or items. It's important to note that the exact appearance can depend on the font and software being used.

Encoding

HTML Entity✮
HTML Entity (hex)✮
URL Escape Code%E2%9C%AE
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x9C 0xAE
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10011100:10101110
UTF-160x272E
UTF-320x0000272E

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u272E"
CSS Code\272E
JavaScript"\u272E"
Perl\x{272E}
Python 2u"\u272E"
Python 3\u272E
Ruby\u{272E}

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>&#10030;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\272E";
}

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