Black Centre White Star ✬

U+272C
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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
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