Sixteen Pointed Asterisk ✺

U+273A
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Symbol Meaning

A shape with sixteen even rays. It resembles a snowflake, a flower, a star, or even the Sun — you can apply this symbol in any sense that's appropriate in your situation.

As many other early Unicode symbols, the sixteen pointed asterisk has a concise and simple design. It's drawn with thin black lines that don't display any excessive elements. Despite its succinct nature, the snowflake looks three-dimensional and colourful (well, at least bright) thanks to the huge amount of rays.

The symbol “Sixteen Pointed 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

starburst, New Year, Christmas.

Unicode Name Sixteen Pointed 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 273A
Simple case change 273A
Grapheme_Base +
age 1.1
scripts Common
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 E2 9C BA 226 156 186 14851258 11100010 10011100 10111010
UTF-16BE 27 3A 39 58 10042 00100111 00111010
UTF-16LE 3A 27 58 39 14887 00111010 00100111
UTF-32BE 00 00 27 3A 0 0 39 58 10042 00000000 00000000 00100111 00111010
UTF-32LE 3A 27 00 00 58 39 0 0 975634432 00111010 00100111 00000000 00000000

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