Circled White Star ✪

U+272A
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Symbol Meaning

Symbol U+272A depicts a white five-pointed star in a circle with a black filled background. Such icons look contrasting in social media posts and attract maximum attention.

The star in the circle is an ancient symbol that has various interpretations depending on the culture. It symbolizes both mathematical perfection, the five virtues that every person should strive for, and protection from various adversities. In typography, this icon is used rather to draw attention to the text, as a means of addressing particularly complex or essential paragraphs.

The symbol “Circled White Star” is included in the “Stars and asterisks” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.

Text is also available in the following languages: Español; Русский;

Synonyms

New Year, Christmas.

Unicode Name Circled White Star
Unicode Number
HTML Code
CSS Code
Unicode Block Dingbats
Unicode Subblock Stars and asterisks
Unicode Version 1.1 (1993)
Version 1.1
Block Dingbats
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) None
Composition Exclusion No
Case change 272A
Simple case change 272A
Grapheme_Base +
age 1.1
scripts Common
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 E2 9C AA 226 156 170 14851242 11100010 10011100 10101010
UTF-16BE 27 2A 39 42 10026 00100111 00101010
UTF-16LE 2A 27 42 39 10791 00101010 00100111
UTF-32BE 00 00 27 2A 0 0 39 42 10026 00000000 00000000 00100111 00101010
UTF-32LE 2A 27 00 00 42 39 0 0 707198976 00101010 00100111 00000000 00000000

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