Heavy Four Balloon-Spoked Asterisk ✤
Symbol Meaning
Symbol U+2724 reminds of a simple flower with four petals, an equilateral cross of unusual shape or an asterisk with teardrop-shaped rays. It is written with a black bold line, has no shadows, contour or other details.
The icon belongs to the dingbat category and it's very popular in typography. You may come across such asterisks in the printed publications and social media posts, when it comes to design and creativity. For example, it can be found in typesetting ornaments, frames, it may also function as a separator of chapters and columns and appear in footnotes and highlighted paragraphs. If you're looking for a thinner teardrop-shaped asterisk, it is represented by the symbol ✣.
The symbol “Heavy Four Balloon-Spoked Asterisk” is included in the “Stars and asterisks” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Heavy Four Balloon-Spoked Asterisk |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Dingbats |
| Unicode Subblock | Stars and asterisks |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2724 |
| Simple case change | 2724 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9C A4 | 226 156 164 | 14851236 | 11100010 10011100 10100100 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 24 | 39 36 | 10020 | 00100111 00100100 |
| UTF-16LE | 24 27 | 36 39 | 9255 | 00100100 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 24 | 0 0 39 36 | 10020 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 00100100 |
| UTF-32LE | 24 27 00 00 | 36 39 0 0 | 606535680 | 00100100 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
