Open Centre Asterisk ✲
Symbol Meaning
The asterisk with the open centre often reminds of a snowflake. That's why it's often used as a dingbat in theme posts about winter, Christmas, and New Year festivities. In some cases the six-pointed icon replaces the five-pointed typograph star U+002A. For example, to signify footnotes, comments, lists.
Unicode has more detailed snowflakes, including the heavy chevron snowflake U+2746 ❆ and tight trifoliate ❅ .
The symbol “Open Centre 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 | Open Centre 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 | 2732 |
| Simple case change | 2732 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9C B2 | 226 156 178 | 14851250 | 11100010 10011100 10110010 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 32 | 39 50 | 10034 | 00100111 00110010 |
| UTF-16LE | 32 27 | 50 39 | 12839 | 00110010 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 32 | 0 0 39 50 | 10034 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 00110010 |
| UTF-32LE | 32 27 00 00 | 50 39 0 0 | 841416704 | 00110010 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
