U+2738 "✸" Heavy Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black Star Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+2738 "✸" Heavy Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black Star is a typographic symbol featuring a bold, solid black star with eight straight, angular points that radiate evenly from a central point, giving it a sharp and geometric appearance. This character is part of the Dingbats block in Unicode and is often used in decorative contexts, such as in lists, as a visual marker, or to denote emphasis or a key item in text, where its heavy weight and rectilinear design make it stand out clearly.
General Properties
Code Point
U+2738
Name
Heavy Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black Star
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
✸
HTML Hex Encoding
✸
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE2 0x9C 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding
0x2738
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00002738
C/C++/Java Escape
\u2738
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Common