Heavy Outlined Black Star ✮
Symbol Meaning
Heavy Outlined Black Star U+272E is similar to the symbol with the code U+272D ✭, but has a bolder outline. This kind of pentagram is a popular symbol in typography and design. It can be used for designing lists and paragraphs, for dividing chapters, or in typesetting ornaments. An icon with a bold frame will draw attention to any elements of the text, be it headline or nickname.
Circled in bold, the outlined black star U+272E is associated with a classic five-pointed star. This symbol has a deep meaning and is widely used in various cultures. Modern people perceive the asterisk as a symbol of festivity, joy, and mystery.
The symbol “Heavy Outlined 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.
| Unicode Name | Heavy Outlined Black 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 | 272E |
| Simple case change | 272E |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9C AE | 226 156 174 | 14851246 | 11100010 10011100 10101110 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 2E | 39 46 | 10030 | 00100111 00101110 |
| UTF-16LE | 2E 27 | 46 39 | 11815 | 00101110 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 2E | 0 0 39 46 | 10030 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 00101110 |
| UTF-32LE | 2E 27 00 00 | 46 39 0 0 | 774307840 | 00101110 00100111 00000000 00000000 |