Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk ✻

U+273B
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Symbol Meaning

Winter-themed posts and creatives definitely benefit from symbol U+273B. It can be used there as a small basic snowflake, quite ordinary in terms of shape. Combined with other asterisks, this symbol creates a picture of the night starry sky and casts the atmosphere of magic. Somebody might take this dingbat for a flower or sun in a concise design.

The universal nature of symbol U+273B is easily explained — it's done as a six-pointed shape with drop-like equal rays and a small circle in the centre. All the elements of the icon have a black background filling.

The symbol “Teardrop-Spoked 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;

Unicode Name Teardrop-Spoked 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 273B
Simple case change 273B
Grapheme_Base +
age 1.1
scripts Common
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 E2 9C BB 226 156 187 14851259 11100010 10011100 10111011
UTF-16BE 27 3B 39 59 10043 00100111 00111011
UTF-16LE 3B 27 59 39 15143 00111011 00100111
UTF-32BE 00 00 27 3B 0 0 39 59 10043 00000000 00000000 00100111 00111011
UTF-32LE 3B 27 00 00 59 39 0 0 992411648 00111011 00100111 00000000 00000000

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