U+2739 "✹" Twelve Pointed Black Star Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
✹
U+2739 "✹" Twelve Pointed Black Star is a typographic symbol representing a star with twelve distinct points, filled in with a solid black color, making it a bold and decorative glyph often used in design, mathematics, or as an ornamental marker. It belongs to the Dingbats block in the Unicode standard, which includes various symbols and icons derived from printing and typographic traditions. This character can be utilized to denote emphasis, serve as a bullet point in lists, or add visual interest to textual content without requiring an image file.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2739 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Twelve 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 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2739 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002739 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2739 |
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 |