Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black Star ✷

U+2737
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Symbol Meaning

A classic eight-pointed star with a black filled background. It has no contrasting outline or shadows. The octogram is a traditional symbol of many cultures and religions. According to the Christian tradition, this is how the Star of Bethlehem is depicted, which is often used as a Christmas and New Year decoration.

Unicode offers you a lot of various eight-pointed stars. For example, formed from two squares 🟐 (it's called “very heavy”), as well as a snowflake 🞾.

The symbol “Eight Pointed Rectilinear 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.

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

Synonyms

New Year, Christmas.

Unicode Name Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black 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 2737
Simple case change 2737
Grapheme_Base +
age 1.1
scripts Common
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 E2 9C B7 226 156 183 14851255 11100010 10011100 10110111
UTF-16BE 27 37 39 55 10039 00100111 00110111
UTF-16LE 37 27 55 39 14119 00110111 00100111
UTF-32BE 00 00 27 37 0 0 39 55 10039 00000000 00000000 00100111 00110111
UTF-32LE 37 27 00 00 55 39 0 0 925302784 00110111 00100111 00000000 00000000

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