U+1F7B5 "🞵" Light Six Spoked Asterisk Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F7B5 "🞵" Light Six Spoked Asterisk is a typographic symbol belonging to the Geometric Shapes Extended block, formally approved as part of Unicode 7.0 in 2014. It depicts a small, open or hollow six pointed star shape with thin, straight arms radiating from a central point, designed to be visually lighter than its solid counterpart. This character is typically used for decorative purposes, as a marker in lists or footnotes, or as a mathematical and astronomical symbol where a delicate star or asterisk shape is required, without the need for a filled heavier form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F7B5 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Light Six Spoked Asterisk |
| Block | Geometric Shapes Extended |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🞵 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🞵 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x9E 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDFB5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F7B5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udfb5 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |