U+1F7B8 "🞸" Heavy Six Spoked Asterisk Unicode Character

U+1F7B8 "🞸" Heavy Six Spoked Asterisk is a typographic symbol belonging to the Dingbats block, designed as a bold, thick-lined six-pointed star or asterisk shape. It is used for decorative emphasis, visual markers, or ornamental purposes in text, often standing out more prominently than a standard asterisk due to its heavier weight and six symmetrical spokes. This character can be employed in lists, footnotes, or as a standalone symbol in digital communication, printed materials, and design contexts where a more robust and stylized asterisk is desired to draw attention or add visual structure.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F7B8
Version Added	7.0
Name	Heavy 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 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDFB8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F7B8
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udfb8

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