❊ is the Unicode character EIGHT TEARDROP-SPOKED PROPELLER ASTERISK, code point U+274A (decimal 10058) in the Dingbats block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write ❊, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes E2 9D 8A.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+274A |
| Decimal | 10058 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 9D 8A |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 274A |
| UTF-32 | 0000274A |
| HTML decimal | ❊ |
| HTML hex | ❊ |
| CSS | \274A |
| JavaScript | \u274A |
| JSON | \u274A |
| Python | \u274A |
| Python by name | \N{EIGHT TEARDROP-SPOKED PROPELLER ASTERISK} |
| Java, C# | \u274A |
| Rust, Swift | \u{274A} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u274A |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %E2%9D%8A |
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 TEARDROP-SPOKED PROPELLER ASTERISK |
| Code point | U+274A (decimal 10058) |
| 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+2742 Circled Open Centre Eight Pointed Star
- ❃ U+2743 Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Pinwheel Asterisk
- ❄ U+2744 Snowflake
- ❅ U+2745 Tight Trifoliate Snowflake
- ❆ U+2746 Heavy Chevron Snowflake
- ❇ U+2747 Sparkle
- ❈ U+2748 Heavy Sparkle
- ❉ U+2749 Balloon-Spoked Asterisk
- ❋ U+274B Heavy Eight Teardrop-Spoked Propeller Asterisk
- ❌ U+274C Cross mark
- ❍ U+274D Shadowed White Circle
- ❎ U+274E Cross mark button
- ❏ U+274F Lower Right Drop-Shadowed White Square
- ❐ U+2750 Upper Right Drop-Shadowed White Square
- ❑ U+2751 Lower Right Shadowed White Square
- ❒ U+2752 Upper Right Shadowed White Square
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+274A?
- E2 9D 8A (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %E2%9D%8A.
- How do I write U+274A in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u274A. Python: \u274A.
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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