✳
Technical information
| Symbol | ✳ | |
| Name | Eight spoked asterisk | |
| Unicode number | U+2733 | |
| Category | Asterisk | |
| Description | The Unicode character ✳, or U+2733, is known as the "Eight Spoked Asterisk". It belongs to the "Dingbats" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. The symbol is a star with eight thin, elongated points arranged in a radial pattern, like a star or the spokes of a wheel. It's often used as a bullet point in lists, or to draw attention to a particular area of a document or image. Its specific meaning can vary depending on the context in which it's used. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ✳ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ✳ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%9C%B3 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x9C 0xB3 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10011100:10110011 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x2733 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00002733 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u2733" | |
| CSS Code | \2733 | |
| JavaScript | "\u2733" | |
| Perl | \x{2733} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u2733" | |
| Python 3 | \u2733 | |
| Ruby | \u{2733} |
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
button
Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>✳</span>
span {
content: "\2733";
}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