U+272E "✮" Heavy Outlined Black Star Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
✮
U+272E "✮" Heavy Outlined Black Star is a typographic symbol that belongs to the Dingbats block, characterized by a bold, solid black star shape enclosed within a heavy outline. This design gives it a striking, prominent appearance, often used to denote importance, excellence, or decoration in digital text, such as in ratings, awards, or bullet lists. Its visual weight and clear outline make it stand out from simpler star symbols like the asterisk or regular star character, providing a more emphatic and formal aesthetic for emphasizing key points or achievements.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+272E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Heavy Outlined 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 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x272E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000272E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u272e |
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 |