U+2749 "❉" Balloon-Spoked Asterisk Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
❉
U+2749 "❉" Balloon-Spoked Asterisk is a decorative typographic glyph that features a star like shape with rounded, bulbous tips on each of its eight spokes, resembling the lobes of a balloon. It is part of the Dingbats block within the Unicode standard, primarily used in graphic design, ornamentation, and as a stylized asterisk in text to add visual flair or mark emphasis without the sharpness of a standard star symbol. Its unique, playful appearance makes it popular for decorative separators, bullet points, or as a whimsical footnote marker in informal or creative writing contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2749 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Balloon-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 0x9D 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2749 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002749 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2749 |
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 |