Four Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk ✢
Symbol Meaning
Four-pointed star U+2722 has four teardrop-shaped spikes of the same length. The symbol looks like an equilateral cross or a basic snowflake. It is used for decorating texts, creating ornaments, and embellishing titles, nicknames, footnotes.
The symbol is drawn with a black line. The image is general, it doesn't have any details. Unicode has other similar symbols, such as this heavy eight-tipped star ✽ with similar spikes or a four-pointed star with balls instead of teardrop-like elements ✣ .
The symbol “Four Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk” is included in the “Stars and asterisks” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Four Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Dingbats |
| Unicode Subblock | Stars and asterisks |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2722 |
| Simple case change | 2722 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9C A2 | 226 156 162 | 14851234 | 11100010 10011100 10100010 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 22 | 39 34 | 10018 | 00100111 00100010 |
| UTF-16LE | 22 27 | 34 39 | 8743 | 00100010 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 22 | 0 0 39 34 | 10018 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 00100010 |
| UTF-32LE | 22 27 00 00 | 34 39 0 0 | 572981248 | 00100010 00100111 00000000 00000000 |