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U+2738 · HEAVY EIGHT POINTED RECTILINEAR BLACK STAR

Heavy Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black Star

CodepointU+2738
NameHEAVY EIGHT POINTED RECTILINEAR BLACK STAR
Decimal10040
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

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Encodings & escapes

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UTF-8	`E2 9C B8`	3 bytes
UTF-16	`2738`	1 code unit
UTF-32	`00002738`	4 bytes
HTML decimal	`✸`
HTML hex	`✸`
CSS	`\2738`	in content: "…"
JavaScript	`\u2738`
JSON	`\u2738`
Python	`\u2738`
Python	`\N{HEAVY EIGHT POINTED RECTILINEAR BLACK STAR}`	by name
Java / C#	`\u2738`
C / C++	`\u2738`	universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP	`\u{2738}`
Go	`\u2738`
Ruby	`\u2738`
Excel / Sheets	`=UNICHAR(10040)`
URL-encoded	`%E2%9C%B8`	percent-encoded UTF-8

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Nearby in Dingbats

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