Outlined Black Star ✭
Symbol Meaning
Outlined Black Star is a symbol with code U+272D. The icon is fulfilled in the black-and-white palette, just like all dingbats from the first version of Unicode. It differs from the simpler black star ★ as it has an additional layer of the dark outline. This layer is placed a bit further than the star itself. Thanks to this way of drawing, the symbol looks three-dimensional and illuminated.
Outlined Black Star is used in typography, on websites and messengers. It serves for drawing attention to nicknames and headlines. Apart from that, it marks points in bullet lists and emphasizes the important information.
The symbol “Outlined 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.
| Unicode Name | Outlined 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 | 272D |
| Simple case change | 272D |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9C AD | 226 156 173 | 14851245 | 11100010 10011100 10101101 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 2D | 39 45 | 10029 | 00100111 00101101 |
| UTF-16LE | 2D 27 | 45 39 | 11559 | 00101101 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 2D | 0 0 39 45 | 10029 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 00101101 |
| UTF-32LE | 2D 27 00 00 | 45 39 0 0 | 757530624 | 00101101 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
