Open Centre Black Star ✫
Symbol Meaning
A dingbat in the form of a five-pointed star with a round circle in the centre. The rays of the symbol are filled with black, but the central part is left transparent. This unusual asterisk is often applied as an embellishment to bullet lists, important paragraphs, titles, nicknames and textual ornaments. It looks contrasting, but succinct. Thanks to its neutral meaning, it can be used in any context imaginable.
Apart from the Open Centre Black Star, Unicode has other five-pointed stars, including black star ★ , shadowed white star ✰ , and pinwheel star ✯ .
The symbol “Open Centre Black 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 | Open Centre Black 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 | 272B |
| Simple case change | 272B |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9C AB | 226 156 171 | 14851243 | 11100010 10011100 10101011 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 2B | 39 43 | 10027 | 00100111 00101011 |
| UTF-16LE | 2B 27 | 43 39 | 11047 | 00101011 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 2B | 0 0 39 43 | 10027 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 00101011 |
| UTF-32LE | 2B 27 00 00 | 43 39 0 0 | 723976192 | 00101011 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
