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U+273A · SIXTEEN POINTED ASTERISK

Sixteen Pointed Asterisk

CodepointU+273A
NameSIXTEEN POINTED ASTERISK
Decimal10042
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

UTF-8 encoder →

UTF-8	`E2 9C BA`	3 bytes
UTF-16	`273A`	1 code unit
UTF-32	`0000273A`	4 bytes
HTML decimal	`✺`
HTML hex	`✺`
CSS	`\273A`	in content: "…"
JavaScript	`\u273A`
JSON	`\u273A`
Python	`\u273A`
Python	`\N{SIXTEEN POINTED ASTERISK}`	by name
Java / C#	`\u273A`
C / C++	`\u273A`	universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP	`\u{273A}`
Go	`\u273A`
Ruby	`\u273A`
Excel / Sheets	`=UNICHAR(10042)`
URL-encoded	`%E2%9C%BA`	percent-encoded UTF-8

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Nearby in Dingbats

All in block →

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