U+1F7BE "🞾" Heavy Eight Spoked Asterisk Unicode Character

U+1F7BE "🞾" Heavy Eight Spoked Asterisk is a graphic symbol classified in the Dingbats block, designed to represent a thick, bold star or asterisk shape with eight equally spaced spokes radiating from a central point. Its "heavy" weight distinguishes it from standard asterisks, giving it a more prominent and solid appearance that is often used for decorative emphasis, as a typographic ornament, or as a visual marker in diagrams and notations. This character is included in the Unicode standard to provide a robust, stylistic alternative to the typical asterisk for use in digital text and design contexts where a stronger visual impact is desired.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F7BE
Version Added	7.0
Name	Heavy 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 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDFBE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F7BE
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udfbe

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