Eight Pointed Pinwheel Star ✵

U+2735
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Symbol Meaning

Star U+2735 is drawn with thin black lines with partial background filling. In other words, each line is partially filled, that's why this geometric shape looks three-dimensional, as if it's moving and twirling in the air.

Eight-pointed star is one of the christian traditional symbols. It's often associated with the Bethlehem star and used as a Christmas decoration.

Unicode has more partially coloured asterisks. For example, a three pointed pinwheel star 🟃 and a simple pinwheel star or pentagram.

The symbol “Eight Pointed Pinwheel 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 Eight Pointed Pinwheel 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 2735
Simple case change 2735
Grapheme_Base +
age 1.1
scripts Common
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 E2 9C B5 226 156 181 14851253 11100010 10011100 10110101
UTF-16BE 27 35 39 53 10037 00100111 00110101
UTF-16LE 35 27 53 39 13607 00110101 00100111
UTF-32BE 00 00 27 35 0 0 39 53 10037 00000000 00000000 00100111 00110101
UTF-32LE 35 27 00 00 53 39 0 0 891748352 00110101 00100111 00000000 00000000

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