Twelve Pointed Black Star ✹
Symbol Meaning
Star U+2739 possesses twenty equilateral rays. A fully painted shape resembles the sun and is often used in this sense. The symbol is used as a typographic decoration, in other words, dingbat. You may come across it in headings and footnotes, highlighted paragraphs and list items. Plus, it is used in ornaments of several thematic icons.
There are more Unicode characters that have the same succinct design as the twelve-pointed star: five-pointed ★ , four-pointed filled ✦ . A minimalistic sun with an open centre is represented by the symbol ☼ .
The symbol “Twelve 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
New Year, Christmas.
| Unicode Name | Twelve Pointed 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 | 2739 |
| Simple case change | 2739 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9C B9 | 226 156 185 | 14851257 | 11100010 10011100 10111001 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 39 | 39 57 | 10041 | 00100111 00111001 |
| UTF-16LE | 39 27 | 57 39 | 14631 | 00111001 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 39 | 0 0 39 57 | 10041 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 00111001 |
| UTF-32LE | 39 27 00 00 | 57 39 0 0 | 958857216 | 00111001 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
