Open Centre Asterisk ✲

U+2732
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Symbol Meaning

The asterisk with the open centre often reminds of a snowflake. That's why it's often used as a dingbat in theme posts about winter, Christmas, and New Year festivities. In some cases the six-pointed icon replaces the five-pointed typograph star U+002A. For example, to signify footnotes, comments, lists.

Unicode has more detailed snowflakes, including the heavy chevron snowflake U+2746 and tight trifoliate .

The symbol “Open Centre 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 Open Centre 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 2732
Simple case change 2732
Grapheme_Base +
age 1.1
scripts Common
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 E2 9C B2 226 156 178 14851250 11100010 10011100 10110010
UTF-16BE 27 32 39 50 10034 00100111 00110010
UTF-16LE 32 27 50 39 12839 00110010 00100111
UTF-32BE 00 00 27 32 0 0 39 50 10034 00000000 00000000 00100111 00110010
UTF-32LE 32 27 00 00 50 39 0 0 841416704 00110010 00100111 00000000 00000000

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