U+1F7BF "🞿" Very Heavy Eight Spoked Asterisk Unicode Character

U+1F7BF "🞿" Very Heavy Eight Spoked Asterisk is a typographic symbol classified in the Dingbats block, characterized by its thick, bold strokes that form an eight pointed star or asterisk shape. This glyph was added as part of Unicode 11.0 in 2018 to provide a dense, visually prominent marker for decorative use, footnotes, or ornamental text, distinguishing itself from lighter or thinner asterisk variants by its substantial weight and symmetrical design. Primarily used in graphic design and digital typography, it serves as a decorative element or emphasis symbol in contexts where a strong visual anchor is needed, such as in headings, dividers, or reference marks.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F7BF
Version Added	7.0
Name	Very 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 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDFBF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F7BF
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udfbf

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