✯
Technical information
| Symbol | ✯ | |
| Name | Pinwheel star | |
| Unicode number | U+272F | |
| Category | Stars | |
| Description | The Unicode character ✯, or U+272F, is known as the "Pinwheel Star". It belongs to the "Dingbats" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character visually resembles a radiant star with elongated points emanating from a central core, akin to a pinwheel or a stylized depiction of a twinkling star. Its design invokes a sense of sparkle or gleam. The Pinwheel Star is often used for decorative purposes, embellishments, or to represent stars in a more artistic manner. The exact appearance of this symbol can depend on the system or application in which it's used and may also differ slightly based on the font and typography used. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ✯ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ✯ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%9C%AF | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x9C 0xAF | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10011100:10101111 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x272F | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000272F |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u272F" | |
| CSS Code | \272F | |
| JavaScript | "\u272F" | |
| Perl | \x{272F} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u272F" | |
| Python 3 | \u272F | |
| Ruby | \u{272F} |
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: "\272F";
}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