U+2736 "✶" Six Pointed Black Star Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
✶
U+2736 "✶" Six Pointed Black Star is a typographic symbol that depicts a star with six points, also known as a hexagram, rendered in a solid black fill. It is part of the Dingbats Unicode block and is commonly used as a decorative element, a bullet point in lists, or a marker for emphasis in text, as well as holding symbolic meaning in various cultural contexts including astrology, heraldry, and religious iconography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2736 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Six Pointed 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 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2736 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002736 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2736 |
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 |