U+272E Heavy Outlined Black Star
U+272E was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Dingbats in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+272E forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
In typography, a star is any of several glyphs with a number of points arrayed within an imaginary circle. A commonly used star symbol is the asterisk.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 10030 |
| UTF-8 | E2 9C AE |
| UTF-16 | 27 2E |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 27 2E |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%9C%AE |
| HTML hex reference | ✮ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ✮ |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 37 C0 34 |
| LATEX | \ding{78} |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| HEAVY OUTLINED BLACK STAR | |
| — | |
| Dingbats | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Heavy Outlined Black Star | |
| ✘ | |
| Heavy Outlined Black Star | |
| Heavy Outlined Black Star | |
| ✘ | |
| Heavy Outlined Black Star | |
| Heavy Outlined Black Star | |
| Heavy Outlined Black Star | |
| Heavy Outlined Black Star | |
| Heavy Outlined Black Star | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Heavy Outlined Black Star | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Heavy Outlined Black Star | |
| Yes | |
| Heavy Outlined Black Star | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Heavy Outlined Black Star | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Heavy Outlined Black Star | |
| U |