Heavy Outlined Black Star ✮

U+272E
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Symbol Meaning

Heavy Outlined Black Star U+272E is similar to the symbol with the code U+272D , but has a bolder outline. This kind of pentagram is a popular symbol in typography and design. It can be used for designing lists and paragraphs, for dividing chapters, or in typesetting ornaments. An icon with a bold frame will draw attention to any elements of the text, be it headline or nickname.

Circled in bold, the outlined black star U+272E is associated with a classic five-pointed star. This symbol has a deep meaning and is widely used in various cultures. Modern people perceive the asterisk as a symbol of festivity, joy, and mystery.

The symbol “Heavy 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.

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Unicode Name Heavy 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 272E
Simple case change 272E
Grapheme_Base +
scripts Common
Pattern_Syntax +
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 E2 9C AE 226 156 174 14851246 11100010 10011100 10101110
UTF-16BE 27 2E 39 46 10030 00100111 00101110
UTF-16LE 2E 27 46 39 11815 00101110 00100111
UTF-32BE 00 00 27 2E 0 0 39 46 10030 00000000 00000000 00100111 00101110
UTF-32LE 2E 27 00 00 46 39 0 0 774307840 00101110 00100111 00000000 00000000
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