❊
Technical information
| Symbol | ❊ | |
| Name | Eight teardrop-spoked propeller asterisk | |
| Unicode number | U+274A | |
| Category | Asterisk | |
| Description | The Unicode character ❊, or U+274A, is known as the "Eight Teardrop-Spoked Propeller 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 that features eight teardrop-shaped spokes arranged in a propeller-like configuration. It can be used in digital communications to highlight, indicate emphasis, or to represent the concept of multiplication. 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%8A | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x9D 0x8A | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10011101:10001010 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x274A | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000274A |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u274A" | |
| CSS Code | \274A | |
| JavaScript | "\u274A" | |
| Perl | \x{274A} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u274A" | |
| Python 3 | \u274A | |
| Ruby | \u{274A} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ❊ in sentence and in bold like this ❊ and in italic like this ❊.
input-group
Font size:
❊
12px
❊
16px
❊
20px
❊
28px
❊
36px
❊
48px
❊
72px
CSS Property: font-weight
❊
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
❊
select
button
button
Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>❊</span>
span {
content: "\274A";
}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