U+1F7BB "🞻" Light Eight Spoked Asterisk Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F7BB "🞻" Light Eight Spoked Asterisk is a typographic symbol classified in the Geometric Shapes Extended block, designed as a thin, open star or asterisk with eight evenly spaced spokes radiating from a central point. It was introduced in Unicode version 7.0 as part of a set of decorative and geometric shapes used in mathematical notation, diagrams, and visual design. The character is distinguished by its lighter stroke weight compared to heavier or filled variants, making it suitable for use in contexts where a delicate, symmetrical marker is needed, such as in maps, charts, or as a subtle emphasis in text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F7BB |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Light Eight 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 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDFBB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F7BB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udfbb |
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 |