Eight Pointed Pinwheel Star ✵
Symbol Meaning
Star U+2735 is drawn with thin black lines with partial background filling. In other words, each line is partially filled, that's why this geometric shape looks three-dimensional, as if it's moving and twirling in the air.
Eight-pointed star is one of the christian traditional symbols. It's often associated with the Bethlehem star and used as a Christmas decoration.
Unicode has more partially coloured asterisks. For example, a three pointed pinwheel star 🟃 and a simple pinwheel star ✯ or pentagram.
The symbol “Eight Pointed 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 | Eight Pointed 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 | 2735 |
| Simple case change | 2735 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9C B5 | 226 156 181 | 14851253 | 11100010 10011100 10110101 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 35 | 39 53 | 10037 | 00100111 00110101 |
| UTF-16LE | 35 27 | 53 39 | 13607 | 00110101 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 35 | 0 0 39 53 | 10037 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 00110101 |
| UTF-32LE | 35 27 00 00 | 53 39 0 0 | 891748352 | 00110101 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
