Eight-Spoked Asterisk Emoji ✳
Emoji Meaning
Typographical eight-pointed sprockets are used for text formatting. Put them instead of headers, or instead of letters in swear words. This asterisk is not for a footnote because it stands in the middle of a line, not at the top: ✳.
Сharacter derived from set of glyphs the ITC Zapf Dingbats series 100.
The symbol “Eight-Spoked 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. In 2015, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 1.0 and added to the “Other Symbols” subcategory of the “Symbols” category.
| Unicode Name | Eight Spoked 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) |
| Emoji Version | 1.0 (2015) |
| Emoji Category | Symbols |
| Emoji Subcategory | Other Symbols |
| Emoji Name | Eight-Spoked Asterisk |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2733 |
| Simple case change | 2733 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9C B3 | 226 156 179 | 14851251 | 11100010 10011100 10110011 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 33 | 39 51 | 10035 | 00100111 00110011 |
| UTF-16LE | 33 27 | 51 39 | 13095 | 00110011 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 33 | 0 0 39 51 | 10035 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 00110011 |
| UTF-32LE | 33 27 00 00 | 51 39 0 0 | 858193920 | 00110011 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
Related Characters
Eight-Spoked Asterisk is part of collections:
