Circled Open Centre Eight Pointed Star ❂
Symbol Meaning
Symbol U+2742 looks like a sun, as it's often depicted in children's books. Eight identical triangular rays are departing from the round central part. The white shape is enclosed in a circle with black fill, so it looks contrasting, clearly visible on the neutral background.
An eight-pointed star in a circle is a symbol that evokes positive associations. It can be used together with other icons of a similar style, for example, with a circled white star ✪ , twelve pointed black star ✹ and the symbol of white sun 🌣 .
The symbol “Circled Open Centre Eight Pointed Star” is included in the “Stars, asterisks and snowflakes” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Circled Open Centre Eight Pointed Star |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Dingbats |
| Unicode Subblock | Stars, asterisks and snowflakes |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2742 |
| Simple case change | 2742 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9D 82 | 226 157 130 | 14851458 | 11100010 10011101 10000010 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 42 | 39 66 | 10050 | 00100111 01000010 |
| UTF-16LE | 42 27 | 66 39 | 16935 | 01000010 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 42 | 0 0 39 66 | 10050 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 01000010 |
| UTF-32LE | 42 27 00 00 | 66 39 0 0 | 1109852160 | 01000010 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
