⯩
Technical information
| Symbol | ⯩ | |
| Name | Right half black star | |
| Unicode number | U+2BE9 | |
| Category | Half star characters | |
| Description | The Unicode character ⯩, or U+2BE9, is known as the "Right Half Black Star". It belongs to the "Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category according to the Unicode standard. The symbol is a star, specifically a five-pointed star that is commonly used to denote ratings in various contexts. This symbol, however, has its right half filled in with black, and its left half is blank or white. This half-black star could be used in specific contexts where partial ratings or scores need to be depicted, or in any other context where a standard star symbol does not suffice. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ⯩ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ⯩ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%AF%A9 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0xAF 0xA9 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10101111:10101001 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x2BE9 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00002BE9 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u2BE9" | |
| CSS Code | \2BE9 | |
| JavaScript | "\u2BE9" | |
| Perl | \x{2BE9} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u2BE9" | |
| Python 3 | \u2BE9 | |
| Ruby | \u{2BE9} |
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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300
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400
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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: "\2BE9";
}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