Heavy Asterisk ✱
Symbol Meaning
A bold asterisk with six straight and even rays is one of the classic typographic symbols. It is used to indicate footnotes, author's comments, difficult cases or rules (in math), notes and other elements of the text.
The asterisk U+2731 is made with bold straight lines, unlike the more delicate icon ∗ , which is traditionally applied as a multiplication sign in math. Unicode also has a combining asterisk, which is usually placed above ⃰ .
The symbol “Heavy Asterisk” 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 | Heavy Asterisk |
| 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 | 2731 |
| Simple case change | 2731 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9C B1 | 226 156 177 | 14851249 | 11100010 10011100 10110001 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 31 | 39 49 | 10033 | 00100111 00110001 |
| UTF-16LE | 31 27 | 49 39 | 12583 | 00110001 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 31 | 0 0 39 49 | 10033 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 00110001 |
| UTF-32LE | 31 27 00 00 | 49 39 0 0 | 824639488 | 00110001 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
