Heavy Asterisk ✱

U+2731
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Symbol Meaning

A bold asterisk with six straight and even rays is one of the classic typographic symbols. It is used to indicate footnotes, author's comments, difficult cases or rules (in math), notes and other elements of the text.

The asterisk U+2731 is made with bold straight lines, unlike the more delicate icon , which is traditionally applied as a multiplication sign in math. Unicode also has a combining asterisk, which is usually placed above .

The symbol “Heavy 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.

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

Synonyms

New Year, Christmas.

Unicode Name Heavy Asterisk
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 2731
Simple case change 2731
Grapheme_Base +
age 1.1
scripts Common
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 E2 9C B1 226 156 177 14851249 11100010 10011100 10110001
UTF-16BE 27 31 39 49 10033 00100111 00110001
UTF-16LE 31 27 49 39 12583 00110001 00100111
UTF-32BE 00 00 27 31 0 0 39 49 10033 00000000 00000000 00100111 00110001
UTF-32LE 31 27 00 00 49 39 0 0 824639488 00110001 00100111 00000000 00000000

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