❋
Technical information
| Symbol | ❋ | |
| Name | Heavy eight teardrop-spoked propeller asterisk | |
| Unicode number | U+274B | |
| Category | Asterisk | |
| Description | The Unicode character "❋", or U+274B, is known as the "Heavy Eight Teardrop-Spoked Propeller Asterisk". It belongs to the "Dingbats" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. The symbol is essentially a stylized asterisk with a round center from which eight teardrop-shaped spokes or arms protrude, giving it the appearance of a propeller. The arms are filled in, making it "heavy" or bold. This symbol is often used in graphic design or typography to create visual interest or to draw attention to specific areas of text. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ❋ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ❋ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%9D%8B | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x9D 0x8B | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10011101:10001011 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x274B | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000274B |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u274B" | |
| CSS Code | \274B | |
| JavaScript | "\u274B" | |
| Perl | \x{274B} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u274B" | |
| Python 3 | \u274B | |
| Ruby | \u{274B} |
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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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: "\274B";
}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