Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Pinwheel Asterisk ❃
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.
| Unicode Name | Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Pinwheel Asterisk |
| 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 | 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 |
