U+2738 "✸" Heavy Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black Star Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2738 "✸" Heavy Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black Star is a typographic symbol featuring a bold, solid black star with eight straight, angular points that radiate evenly from a central point, giving it a sharp and geometric appearance. This character is part of the Dingbats block in Unicode and is often used in decorative contexts, such as in lists, as a visual marker, or to denote emphasis or a key item in text, where its heavy weight and rectilinear design make it stand out clearly.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2738 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Heavy Eight Pointed Rectilinear 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 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2738 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002738 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2738 |
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 |