Eight Teardrop-Spoked Propeller Asterisk ❊
Symbol Meaning
We are presented with an eight-pointed asterisk with drop-shaped rays and a round centre. The drawing is carried out with black lines. Visually it resembles a flower, a sun or a propeller. Thanks to such descign, this symbol is not attributed any specific meaning, so you can use it as a decoration in various elements of posts and texts.
Unicode has more other eight-pointed dingbats. For example, a classic star with pointed black rays 🟎 and a thin succinct snowflake 🞻 .
The symbol “Eight Teardrop-Spoked Propeller 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 | Eight Teardrop-Spoked Propeller 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 | 274A |
| Simple case change | 274A |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9D 8A | 226 157 138 | 14851466 | 11100010 10011101 10001010 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 4A | 39 74 | 10058 | 00100111 01001010 |
| UTF-16LE | 4A 27 | 74 39 | 18983 | 01001010 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 4A | 0 0 39 74 | 10058 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 01001010 |
| UTF-32LE | 4A 27 00 00 | 74 39 0 0 | 1244069888 | 01001010 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
Copy and paste these codes to use the Eight Teardrop-Spoked Propeller Asterisk character in text for websites, social media, messengers, or blog posts.
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