Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black Star ✷
Symbol Meaning
A classic eight-pointed star with a black filled background. It has no contrasting outline or shadows. The octogram is a traditional symbol of many cultures and religions. According to the Christian tradition, this is how the Star of Bethlehem is depicted, which is often used as a Christmas and New Year decoration.
Unicode offers you a lot of various eight-pointed stars. For example, formed from two squares 🟐 (it's called “very heavy”), as well as a snowflake 🞾 .
The symbol “Eight Pointed Rectilinear 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
New Year, Christmas.
| Unicode Name | Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black 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 | 2737 |
| Simple case change | 2737 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9C B7 | 226 156 183 | 14851255 | 11100010 10011100 10110111 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 37 | 39 55 | 10039 | 00100111 00110111 |
| UTF-16LE | 37 27 | 55 39 | 14119 | 00110111 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 37 | 0 0 39 55 | 10039 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 00110111 |
| UTF-32LE | 37 27 00 00 | 55 39 0 0 | 925302784 | 00110111 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
