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Technical information
| Symbol | ✲ | |
| Name | Open center asterisk | |
| Unicode number | U+2732 | |
| Category | Asterisk | |
| Description | The Unicode character "✲", or U+2732, is known as the "Open Centre Asterisk". It is part of the "Dingbats" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. The open center asterisk is a star-like symbol with six points extending from a hollow center. It is often used for emphasis in text or to indicate a footnote. It's different from a regular asterisk because of its open or hollow center. It's often used in more artistic or design-focused contexts due to its unique appearance. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ✲ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ✲ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%9C%B2 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x9C 0xB2 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10011100:10110010 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x2732 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00002732 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u2732" | |
| CSS Code | \2732 | |
| JavaScript | "\u2732" | |
| Perl | \x{2732} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u2732" | |
| Python 3 | \u2732 | |
| Ruby | \u{2732} |
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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HTML Forms and Input
input
disabled input
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select
button
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>✲</span>
span {
content: "\2732";
}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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Verdana