Black Centre White Star ✬
Symbol Meaning
Symbol U+272C is a star with a bold outline and a black circle in the central part. The icon with five equal rays resembles a schematically depicted flower, so it can be used as part of a floral ornament.
This contrasting appealing symbol can often be seen as a typographic decoration of headlines, lists, highlighted paragraphs, nicknames on social media and forums. If you need a simpler five-pointed asterisk, you can use black star ★ or shadowed white star ✰.
The symbol “Black Centre 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.
| Unicode Name | Black Centre White Star |
| 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 | 272C |
| Simple case change | 272C |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9C AC | 226 156 172 | 14851244 | 11100010 10011100 10101100 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 2C | 39 44 | 10028 | 00100111 00101100 |
| UTF-16LE | 2C 27 | 44 39 | 11303 | 00101100 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 2C | 0 0 39 44 | 10028 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 00101100 |
| UTF-32LE | 2C 27 00 00 | 44 39 0 0 | 740753408 | 00101100 00100111 00000000 00000000 |