Six Pointed Black Star ✶
Symbol Meaning
This six-pointed star U+2736 is a thoroughly filled shape with even lines. It doesn't have shadows, contrasting outline or any other elements, that's why it looks so universal and minimalistic. The dingbat is often applied in typographic ornaments as a decoration or embellishment of social media posts (for example, in headlines, nicknames, creatives, lists).
Unlike the Star of David ✡, symbol U+2736 is not restricted to the religious or cultural-historical context. That's why it looks appropriate in various texts on any topic.
The symbol “Six Pointed Black 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
sextile, New Year, Christmas.
| Unicode Name | Six Pointed Black Star |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | ✶ |
| 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 | 2736 |
| Simple case change | 2736 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9C B6 | 226 156 182 | 14851254 | 11100010 10011100 10110110 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 36 | 39 54 | 10038 | 00100111 00110110 |
| UTF-16LE | 36 27 | 54 39 | 13863 | 00110110 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 36 | 0 0 39 54 | 10038 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 00110110 |
| UTF-32LE | 36 27 00 00 | 54 39 0 0 | 908525568 | 00110110 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
