Technical information

Symbol
NameBalloon-spoked asterisk
Unicode numberU+2749
CategoryAsterisk
DescriptionThe Unicode character ❉, or U+2749, is known as the "Balloon-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 symbol, with each arm looking like a balloon or teardrop shape. It is often used to indicate footnotes, comments, or as a bullet point in lists. 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%9D%89
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x9D 0x89
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10011101:10001001
UTF-160x2749
UTF-320x00002749

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u2749"
CSS Code\2749
JavaScript"\u2749"
Perl\x{2749}
Python 2u"\u2749"
Python 3\u2749
Ruby\u{2749}

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>&#10057;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\2749";
}

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