U+2743 "❃" Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Pinwheel Asterisk Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
❃
U+2743 "❃" Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Pinwheel Asterisk is a decorative symbol classified under the Dingbats block, featuring a bold asterisk-like design with four curved, teardrop-shaped spokes radiating from a central point, creating a swirling or pinwheel effect. Its heavy, solid form makes it suitable for use as an ornamental typographical element, such as a section divider, a list marker, or a decorative flourish in text and graphic design. Unlike a standard asterisk, this character’s unique shape adds a sense of motion and elegance, originally inspired by traditional printing ornaments and commonly found in modern digital fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2743 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Pinwheel 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 0x9D 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2743 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002743 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2743 |
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 |