Twelve Pointed Black Star ✹

U+2739
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Symbol Meaning

Star U+2739 possesses twenty equilateral rays. A fully painted shape resembles the sun and is often used in this sense. The symbol is used as a typographic decoration, in other words, dingbat. You may come across it in headings and footnotes, highlighted paragraphs and list items. Plus, it is used in ornaments of several thematic icons.

There are more Unicode characters that have the same succinct design as the twelve-pointed star: five-pointed , four-pointed filled . A minimalistic sun with an open centre is represented by the symbol .

The symbol “Twelve Pointed 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 Twelve Pointed 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 2739
Simple case change 2739
Grapheme_Base +
age 1.1
scripts Common
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 E2 9C B9 226 156 185 14851257 11100010 10011100 10111001
UTF-16BE 27 39 39 57 10041 00100111 00111001
UTF-16LE 39 27 57 39 14631 00111001 00100111
UTF-32BE 00 00 27 39 0 0 39 57 10041 00000000 00000000 00100111 00111001
UTF-32LE 39 27 00 00 57 39 0 0 958857216 00111001 00100111 00000000 00000000

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