Sixteen Pointed Asterisk ✺
Symbol Meaning
A shape with sixteen even rays. It resembles a snowflake, a flower, a star, or even the Sun — you can apply this symbol in any sense that's appropriate in your situation.
As many other early Unicode symbols, the sixteen pointed asterisk has a concise and simple design. It's drawn with thin black lines that don't display any excessive elements. Despite its succinct nature, the snowflake looks three-dimensional and colourful (well, at least bright) thanks to the huge amount of rays.
The symbol “Sixteen Pointed 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.
Synonyms
starburst, New Year, Christmas.
| Unicode Name | Sixteen Pointed 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) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 273A |
| Simple case change | 273A |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9C BA | 226 156 186 | 14851258 | 11100010 10011100 10111010 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 3A | 39 58 | 10042 | 00100111 00111010 |
| UTF-16LE | 3A 27 | 58 39 | 14887 | 00111010 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 3A | 0 0 39 58 | 10042 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 00111010 |
| UTF-32LE | 3A 27 00 00 | 58 39 0 0 | 975634432 | 00111010 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
