U+1F7B9 "🞹" Very Heavy Six Spoked Asterisk Unicode Character

U+1F7B9 "🞹" Very Heavy Six Spoked Asterisk is a typographic symbol belonging to the Dingbats block, designed as a thick, bold star-like shape with a central hub and six equally spaced arms that extend outward, ending in sharp points. Its weight and distinctiveness, emphasized by the descriptor "very heavy," make it suitable for emphasis in text, use as a bullet point, or as a decorative icon in visual design and formatting. Unlike the standard asterisk, this variant carries a heavier visual presence, often employing a deep black ink or a dark color to stand out in printed or digital media.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F7B9
Version Added	7.0
Name	Very 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 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDFB9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F7B9
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udfb9

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