Circled Open Centre Eight Pointed Star ❂

U+2742
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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.

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Unicode Name Circled Open Centre Eight Pointed Star
Unicode Number
HTML Code
CSS Code
Unicode Block Dingbats
Unicode Subblock Stars, asterisks and snowflakes
Unicode Version 1.1 (1993)
Version 1.1
Block Dingbats
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) None
Composition Exclusion No
Case change 2742
Simple case change 2742
Grapheme_Base +
age 1.1
scripts Common
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

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