U+273D "✽" Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
✽
U+273D "✽" Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk is a distinctive typographic symbol featuring eight symmetrical spokes that each terminate in a teardrop or droplet-like shape, giving it a heavier, more ornate appearance than a standard asterisk. Belonging to the Dingbats block, this character is often employed for decorative purposes in text, such as a marker for footnotes, a bullet point in lists, or an ornamental divider in visual designs. Its bold, floral aesthetic makes it particularly suitable for adding emphasis or a touch of elegance to written content, whether in digital typography or print media, and it is supported across most modern fonts and systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+273D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk |
| 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 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x273D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000273D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u273d |