✶
Technical information
| Symbol | ✶ | |
| Name | Six pointed black star | |
| Unicode number | U+2736 | |
| Category | Stars | |
| Description | The Unicode character ✶, or U+2736, is known as the "Six Pointed Black Star". It belongs to the "Dingbats" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. The symbol depicts a six-pointed star that is usually filled in with black. The points of the star are equidistant from each other, and it can also be described as two equilateral triangles overlapped on each other, one upside down. This symbol is often used to represent stars in general and can convey various symbolic meanings in different contexts, including but not limited to indicating excellence, representing the star of David in Judaism, or denoting a snowflake. The specific appearance of this symbol can depend on the font and system in use. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ✶ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ✶ | |
| HTML Entity (named) | ✶ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%9C%B6 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x9C 0xB6 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10011100:10110110 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x2736 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00002736 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u2736" | |
| CSS Code | \2736 | |
| JavaScript | "\u2736" | |
| Perl | \x{2736} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u2736" | |
| Python 3 | \u2736 | |
| Ruby | \u{2736} |
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: "\2736";
}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
✶
Segoe UI Symbol
✶
system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana