Circled White Star ✪
Symbol Meaning
Symbol U+272A depicts a white five-pointed star in a circle with a black filled background. Such icons look contrasting in social media posts and attract maximum attention.
The star in the circle is an ancient symbol that has various interpretations depending on the culture. It symbolizes both mathematical perfection, the five virtues that every person should strive for, and protection from various adversities. In typography, this icon is used rather to draw attention to the text, as a means of addressing particularly complex or essential paragraphs.
The symbol “Circled White Star” is included in the “Stars and asterisks” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
Synonyms
New Year, Christmas.
| Unicode Name | Circled White Star |
| 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 | 272A |
| Simple case change | 272A |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9C AA | 226 156 170 | 14851242 | 11100010 10011100 10101010 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 2A | 39 42 | 10026 | 00100111 00101010 |
| UTF-16LE | 2A 27 | 42 39 | 10791 | 00101010 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 2A | 0 0 39 42 | 10026 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 00101010 |
| UTF-32LE | 2A 27 00 00 | 42 39 0 0 | 707198976 | 00101010 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
