Open Centre Black Star ✫

U+272B
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Symbol Meaning

A dingbat in the form of a five-pointed star with a round circle in the centre. The rays of the symbol are filled with black, but the central part is left transparent. This unusual asterisk is often applied as an embellishment to bullet lists, important paragraphs, titles, nicknames and textual ornaments. It looks contrasting, but succinct. Thanks to its neutral meaning, it can be used in any context imaginable.

Apart from the Open Centre Black Star, Unicode has other five-pointed stars, including black star , shadowed white star , and pinwheel star .

The symbol “Open Centre Black 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 Open Centre Black 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 272B
Simple case change 272B
Grapheme_Base +
age 1.1
scripts Common
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 E2 9C AB 226 156 171 14851243 11100010 10011100 10101011
UTF-16BE 27 2B 39 43 10027 00100111 00101011
UTF-16LE 2B 27 43 39 11047 00101011 00100111
UTF-32BE 00 00 27 2B 0 0 39 43 10027 00000000 00000000 00100111 00101011
UTF-32LE 2B 27 00 00 43 39 0 0 723976192 00101011 00100111 00000000 00000000

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