⯨
Technical information
| Symbol | ⯨ | |
| Name | Left half black star | |
| Unicode number | U+2BE8 | |
| Category | Half star characters | |
| Description | The Unicode character ⯨, or U+2BE8, is known as "Left Half Black Star". It is part of the "Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows" block and is categorized under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character, as the name suggests, is a graphic symbol that depicts a star with its left half filled in black. Its uses can vary significantly based on context but it is often used in design or to create visual effects in text, whether digital or printed. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ⯨ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ⯨ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%AF%A8 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0xAF 0xA8 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10101111:10101000 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x2BE8 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00002BE8 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u2BE8" | |
| CSS Code | \2BE8 | |
| JavaScript | "\u2BE8" | |
| Perl | \x{2BE8} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u2BE8" | |
| Python 3 | \u2BE8 | |
| Ruby | \u{2BE8} |
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: "\2BE8";
}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