U+2BE8 "⯨" Left Half Black Star Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⯨
U+2BE8 "⯨" Left Half Black Star is a typographic symbol representing the left vertical half of a solid five pointed star, with its right half missing or transparent. It belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block and is often used in contexts like rating systems, chess notation, or visual dividers to indicate incomplete status, partial shading, or directional emphasis without relying on a full star shape.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2BE8 |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Left Half Black Star |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⯨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⯨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xAF 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2BE8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002BE8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2be8 |
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 |