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U+2734 · EIGHT POINTED BLACK STAR

Eight Pointed Black Star

  • CodepointU+2734
  • NameEIGHT POINTED BLACK STAR
  • Emoji nameeight-pointed star
  • Decimal10036
  • 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+2734 (✴) is EIGHT POINTED BLACK STAR, 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-pointed star”, 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+2734 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 B43 bytes
UTF-1627341 code unit
UTF-32000027344 bytes
HTML decimal✴
HTML hex✴
CSS\2734in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2734
JSON\u2734
Python\u2734
Python\N{EIGHT POINTED BLACK STAR}by name
Java / C#\u2734
C / C++\u2734universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2734}
Go\u2734
Ruby\u2734
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(10036)
URL-encoded%E2%9C%B4percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Dingbats

All in block →
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+2733✳Eight Spoked Asterisk 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 U+273A✺Sixteen Pointed Asterisk