Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Pinwheel Asterisk ❃

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U+2743

Symbol Meaning

Symbol U+2743 has six drop-like rays with a heavy outline. One half of each is filled with black, the other is left transparent. Due to such a manner of drawing, the star seems to be turning around.

Although symbol U+2743 is called an asterisk, its shape reminds of a flower. Unicode has more icons with similar drop-shaped rays. For example, a heavy teardrop-spoked asterisk ✽ and a shape featuring a circle in the centre ✻ .

The symbol “Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Pinwheel Asterisk” 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	Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Pinwheel Asterisk
Unicode Number
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	2743
Simple case change	2743
Grapheme_Base	+
scripts	Common
Pattern_Syntax	+

Encoding	hex	dec (bytes)	dec	binary
UTF-8	E2 9D 83	226 157 131	14851459	11100010 10011101 10000011
UTF-16BE	27 43	39 67	10051	00100111 01000011
UTF-16LE	43 27	67 39	17191	01000011 00100111
UTF-32BE	00 00 27 43	0 0 39 67	10051	00000000 00000000 00100111 01000011
UTF-32LE	43 27 00 00	67 39 0 0	1126629376	01000011 00100111 00000000 00000000

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