Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk ✽
Symbol Meaning
This icon represents a heavy star with drop-like rays. The six-pointed symbol resembles a schematically drawn snowflake or flower or maybe a typographic asterisk for footnotes and comments. This dingbat is often used to decorate stationery, books, magazines, brochures. You may come across it in virtual texts — on web pages, in nicknames, set ornaments and frames.
Such a teardrop-spoked asterisk is available for combining with other bold and heavy icons. For example, with a chevron snowflake ❆ or a spark ❈.
The symbol “Heavy 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 | Heavy Teardrop-Spoked 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 | 273D |
| Simple case change | 273D |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9C BD | 226 156 189 | 14851261 | 11100010 10011100 10111101 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 3D | 39 61 | 10045 | 00100111 00111101 |
| UTF-16LE | 3D 27 | 61 39 | 15655 | 00111101 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 3D | 0 0 39 61 | 10045 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 00111101 |
| UTF-32LE | 3D 27 00 00 | 61 39 0 0 | 1025966080 | 00111101 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
