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U+273D · HEAVY TEARDROP-SPOKED ASTERISK

Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk

  • CodepointU+273D
  • NameHEAVY TEARDROP-SPOKED ASTERISK
  • Decimal10045
  • 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 widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+273D (✽) is HEAVY TEARDROP-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 East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type ✽

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 9C BD3 bytes
UTF-16273D1 code unit
UTF-320000273D4 bytes
HTML decimal✽
HTML hex✽
CSS\273Din content: "…"
JavaScript\u273D
JSON\u273D
Python\u273D
Python\N{HEAVY TEARDROP-SPOKED ASTERISK}by name
Java / C#\u273D
C / C++\u273Duniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{273D}
Go\u273D
Ruby\u273D
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(10045)
URL-encoded%E2%9C%BDpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Dingbats

All in block →
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 U+273B✻Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk U+273C✼Open Centre Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk U+273E✾Six Petalled Black and White Florette U+273F✿Black Florette U+2740❀White Florette U+2741❁Eight Petalled Outlined Black Florette U+2742❂Circled Open Centre Eight Pointed Star U+2743❃Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Pinwheel Asterisk