Black Centre White Star ✬
Symbol Meaning
Symbol U+272C is a star with a bold outline and a black circle in the central part. The icon with five equal rays resembles a schematically depicted flower, so it can be used as part of a floral ornament.
This contrasting appealing symbol can often be seen as a typographic decoration of headlines, lists, highlighted paragraphs, nicknames on social media and forums. If you need a simpler five-pointed asterisk, you can use black star ★ or shadowed white star ✰ .
The symbol “Black Centre 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.
Text is also available in the following languages: Español; Русский;
Unicode Name | Black Centre 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 | 272C |
Simple case change | 272C |
Grapheme_Base | + |
scripts | Common |
Pattern_Syntax | + |
Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
---|---|---|---|---|
UTF-8 | E2 9C AC | 226 156 172 | 14851244 | 11100010 10011100 10101100 |
UTF-16BE | 27 2C | 39 44 | 10028 | 00100111 00101100 |
UTF-16LE | 2C 27 | 44 39 | 11303 | 00101100 00100111 |
UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 2C | 0 0 39 44 | 10028 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 00101100 |
UTF-32LE | 2C 27 00 00 | 44 39 0 0 | 740753408 | 00101100 00100111 00000000 00000000 |