Technical information

Symbol
NameTeardrop-spoked asterisk
Unicode numberU+273B
CategoryAsterisk
DescriptionThe Unicode character ✻, or U+273B, is known as the "Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk". It belongs to the "Dingbats" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a graphic representation of an asterisk, but it is stylistically distinct from a regular asterisk due to its teardrop-spoked design. It can be used as a decorative symbol in texts or for other design purposes. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in.

Encoding

HTML Entity✻
HTML Entity (hex)✻
URL Escape Code%E2%9C%BB
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x9C 0xBB
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10011100:10111011
UTF-160x273B
UTF-320x0000273B

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u273B"
CSS Code\273B
JavaScript"\u273B"
Perl\x{273B}
Python 2u"\u273B"
Python 3\u273B
Ruby\u{273B}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ✻ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

12px
16px
20px
28px
36px
48px
72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#10043;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\273B";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References