Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk ✻
Symbol Meaning
Winter-themed posts and creatives definitely benefit from symbol U+273B. It can be used there as a small basic snowflake, quite ordinary in terms of shape. Combined with other asterisks, this symbol creates a picture of the night starry sky and casts the atmosphere of magic. Somebody might take this dingbat for a flower or sun in a concise design.
The universal nature of symbol U+273B is easily explained — it's done as a six-pointed shape with drop-like equal rays and a small circle in the centre. All the elements of the icon have a black background filling.
The symbol “Teardrop-Spoked 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.
| Unicode Name | Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk |
| Unicode Number | |
| 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 | 273B |
| Simple case change | 273B |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9C BB | 226 156 187 | 14851259 | 11100010 10011100 10111011 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 3B | 39 59 | 10043 | 00100111 00111011 |
| UTF-16LE | 3B 27 | 59 39 | 15143 | 00111011 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 3B | 0 0 39 59 | 10043 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 00111011 |
| UTF-32LE | 3B 27 00 00 | 59 39 0 0 | 992411648 | 00111011 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
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