Four Club-Spoked Asterisk ✥
Symbol Meaning
The asterisk U+2725 has an unusual shape. At the end of each thin line there is a black element which looks like a clover leaf or a club icon that denotes one of the card suits.
In Unicode, the symbol is called a club-shaped asterisk because of some similarity of the tips with the clubs — ancient battle maces (weapons). However, today this similarity is not obvious, so the symbol can be safely used as a typographic decoration in texts of any subject.
The symbol “Four Club-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 Club-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 | 2725 |
| Simple case change | 2725 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9C A5 | 226 156 165 | 14851237 | 11100010 10011100 10100101 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 25 | 39 37 | 10021 | 00100111 00100101 |
| UTF-16LE | 25 27 | 37 39 | 9511 | 00100101 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 25 | 0 0 39 37 | 10021 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 00100101 |
| UTF-32LE | 25 27 00 00 | 37 39 0 0 | 623312896 | 00100101 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
