U+272B "✫" Open Centre Black Star Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
✫
U+272B "✫" Open Centre Black Star is a typographic symbol featuring a five pointed star with a black outline and an open, hollow center, displaying the star's interior space rather than filling it solidly. This design distinguishes it from solid star characters, and it is commonly used in decorative contexts, as a bullet point in lists, or as a stylized embellishment in text and digital communication to draw attention or convey a sense of guidance, excellence, or achievement.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+272B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Open Centre Black Star |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Open Center Black Star |
| Block | Dingbats |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ✫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ✫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x9C 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x272B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000272B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u272b |
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 |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |