Pinwheel Star ✯
Symbol Meaning
It's this star that decorates the Christmas tree, crowns the spires of the Moscow Kremlin, and is one of the most recognizable symbols of the USSR used on the shoulder straps of the military of different countries. We are talking about the five-pointed three-dimensional star without excessive elements.
Symbol U+272F has a lot of analogues in Unicode: black star ★ , shadowed white star ✰ , outlined black star ✭ . You can use all of them for decorating printed or virtual texts.
The symbol “Pinwheel 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 | Pinwheel 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 | 272F |
| Simple case change | 272F |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9C AF | 226 156 175 | 14851247 | 11100010 10011100 10101111 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 2F | 39 47 | 10031 | 00100111 00101111 |
| UTF-16LE | 2F 27 | 47 39 | 12071 | 00101111 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 2F | 0 0 39 47 | 10031 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 00101111 |
| UTF-32LE | 2F 27 00 00 | 47 39 0 0 | 791085056 | 00101111 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
