✺
Technical information
| Symbol | ✺ | |
| Name | Sixteen pointed asterisk | |
| Unicode number | U+273A | |
| Category | Asterisk | |
| Description | The Unicode character ✺, or U+273A, is known as the "Sixteen Pointed Asterisk". It belongs to the "Dingbats" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. As the name suggests, this symbol is an asterisk with sixteen points. This symbol is a more stylized and decorative version of a traditional asterisk, and its use can vary greatly depending on the context. Like other asterisks, it's often used to denote footnotes or to emphasize certain parts of a text. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ✺ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ✺ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%9C%BA | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x9C 0xBA | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10011100:10111010 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x273A | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000273A |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u273A" | |
| CSS Code | \273A | |
| JavaScript | "\u273A" | |
| Perl | \x{273A} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u273A" | |
| Python 3 | \u273A | |
| Ruby | \u{273A} |
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: "\273A";
}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