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U+2733 · EIGHT SPOKED ASTERISK

Eight Spoked Asterisk

  • CodepointU+2733
  • NameEIGHT SPOKED ASTERISK
  • Emoji nameeight-spoked asterisk
  • Decimal10035
  • BlockDingbats (U+2700–U+27BF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2733 (✳) is EIGHT SPOKED ASTERISK, a symbol in the Dingbats block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “eight-spoked asterisk”, in the Symbols group, subgroup other-symbol. By default it is shown as a text glyph; follow it with U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 to request the colour emoji form (U+2733 U+FE0F), or with U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15 to force text style.

How to type ✳

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 9C B33 bytes
UTF-1627331 code unit
UTF-32000027334 bytes
HTML decimal✳
HTML hex✳
CSS\2733in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2733
JSON\u2733
Python\u2733
Python\N{EIGHT SPOKED ASTERISK}by name
Java / C#\u2733
C / C++\u2733universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2733}
Go\u2733
Ruby\u2733
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(10035)
URL-encoded%E2%9C%B3percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Dingbats

All in block →
U+272D✭Outlined Black Star U+272E✮Heavy Outlined Black Star U+272F✯Pinwheel Star U+2730✰Shadowed White Star U+2731✱Heavy Asterisk U+2732✲Open Centre Asterisk U+2734✴Eight Pointed Black Star U+2735✵Eight Pointed Pinwheel Star U+2736✶Six Pointed Black Star U+2737✷Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black Star U+2738✸Heavy Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black Star U+2739✹Twelve Pointed Black Star