✴ is the Unicode emoji EIGHT POINTED BLACK STAR (“eight-pointed star”), code point U+2734 (decimal 10036) in the Dingbats block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write ✴, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes E2 9C B4.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+2734 |
| Decimal | 10036 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 9C B4 |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 2734 |
| UTF-32 | 00002734 |
| HTML decimal | ✴ |
| HTML hex | ✴ |
| CSS | \2734 |
| JavaScript | \u2734 |
| JSON | \u2734 |
| Python | \u2734 |
| Python by name | \N{EIGHT POINTED BLACK STAR} |
| Java, C# | \u2734 |
| Rust, Swift | \u{2734} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u2734 |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %E2%9C%B4 |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | EIGHT POINTED BLACK STAR |
| Emoji name | eight-pointed star |
| Code point | U+2734 (decimal 10036) |
| Block | Dingbats (U+2700–U+27BF) |
| General category | So: Other symbol |
| Script | Common |
| Bidirectional class | ON: Other neutral |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Nearby in Dingbats
- ✬ U+272C Black Centre White Star
- ✭ U+272D Outlined Black Star
- ✮ U+272E Heavy Outlined Black Star
- ✯ U+272F Pinwheel Star
- ✰ U+2730 Shadowed White Star
- ✱ U+2731 Heavy Asterisk
- ✲ U+2732 Open Centre Asterisk
- ✳ U+2733 Eight-spoked asterisk
- ✵ U+2735 Eight Pointed Pinwheel Star
- ✶ U+2736 Six Pointed Black Star
- ✷ U+2737 Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black Star
- ✸ U+2738 Heavy Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black Star
- ✹ U+2739 Twelve Pointed Black Star
- ✺ U+273A Sixteen Pointed Asterisk
- ✻ U+273B Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk
- ✼ U+273C Open Centre Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk
All 192 characters: Dingbats.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for ✴?
- Use ✴ (decimal) or ✴ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+2734?
- E2 9C B4 (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %E2%9C%B4.
- How do I write U+2734 in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u2734. Python: \u2734.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3) and the Unicode emoji test data; HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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