Heavy Sparkle ❈
Symbol Meaning
Dingbat U+2748 is called a sparkle, but it rather resembles a flower with four petals and straight little rays. The drawing consists of black lines, it doesn't have shadows, a contrasting outline or other details. The centre features a small accurate circle with a filled background.
Symbol U+2748 is used as a typographic decoration: it comes in handy when it's necessary to create bullet-lists, highlight important headlines, draw attention to a meaningful paragraph. The icon is well-combined with other floral symbols from the early versions of Unicode, including the multi-coloured flower ❀ .
The symbol “Heavy Sparkle” 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 Sparkle |
| 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 | 2748 |
| Simple case change | 2748 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9D 88 | 226 157 136 | 14851464 | 11100010 10011101 10001000 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 48 | 39 72 | 10056 | 00100111 01001000 |
| UTF-16LE | 48 27 | 72 39 | 18471 | 01001000 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 48 | 0 0 39 72 | 10056 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 01001000 |
| UTF-32LE | 48 27 00 00 | 72 39 0 0 | 1210515456 | 01001000 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
