✽ is the Unicode character HEAVY TEARDROP-SPOKED ASTERISK, code point U+273D (decimal 10045) in the Dingbats block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write ✽, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes E2 9C BD.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+273D |
| Decimal | 10045 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 9C BD |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 273D |
| UTF-32 | 0000273D |
| HTML decimal | ✽ |
| HTML hex | ✽ |
| CSS | \273D |
| JavaScript | \u273D |
| JSON | \u273D |
| Python | \u273D |
| Python by name | \N{HEAVY TEARDROP-SPOKED ASTERISK} |
| Java, C# | \u273D |
| Rust, Swift | \u{273D} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u273D |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %E2%9C%BD |
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 | HEAVY TEARDROP-SPOKED ASTERISK |
| Code point | U+273D (decimal 10045) |
| 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+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
- ✾ U+273E Six Petalled Black And White Florette
- ✿ U+273F Black Florette
- ❀ U+2740 White Florette
- ❁ U+2741 Eight Petalled Outlined Black Florette
- ❂ U+2742 Circled Open Centre Eight Pointed Star
- ❃ U+2743 Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Pinwheel Asterisk
- ❄ U+2744 Snowflake
- ❅ U+2745 Tight Trifoliate Snowflake
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+273D?
- E2 9C BD (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %E2%9C%BD.
- How do I write U+273D in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u273D. Python: \u273D.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); 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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