Four Balloon-Spoked Asterisk ✣
Symbol Meaning
The four-pointed star U+2723 differs from other similar symbols by its unusual shape. It consists of lines of equal length, at the ends of which there are small teardrop-shaped balls. The intersection of the thin lines is crowned by the right circle.
The Four Balloon-Spoked Asterisk symbol looks like an equilateral Greek cross, an element of the ancient floral ornament, and an unusual asterisk at the same time. You can use the icon in different ways, including title decoration, nickname embellishment, or column separation/frame composition.
The symbol “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 | 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 | 2723 |
| Simple case change | 2723 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9C A3 | 226 156 163 | 14851235 | 11100010 10011100 10100011 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 23 | 39 35 | 10019 | 00100111 00100011 |
| UTF-16LE | 23 27 | 35 39 | 8999 | 00100011 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 23 | 0 0 39 35 | 10019 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 00100011 |
| UTF-32LE | 23 27 00 00 | 35 39 0 0 | 589758464 | 00100011 00100111 00000000 00000000 |