Source: Noto Sans Symbols2

U+272E Heavy Outlined Black Star

U+272E was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+2700 to U+27BF Dingbats in the U+0000 to U+FFFF 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 a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+272E behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

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.

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	âœ®
L^AT_EX	\ding{78}

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name	HEAVY OUTLINED BLACK STAR
Unicode 1 Name	—
Block	Dingbats
General Category	Other Symbol
Script	Common
Bidirectional Category	Other Neutral
Combining Class	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type	None
Decomposition Mapping	Heavy Outlined Black Star
Lowercase	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping	Heavy Outlined Black Star
Lowercase Mapping	Heavy Outlined Black Star
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	Heavy Outlined Black Star
Uppercase Mapping	Heavy Outlined Black Star
Simple Titlecase Mapping	Heavy Outlined Black Star
Titlecase Mapping	Heavy Outlined Black Star
Case Folding	Heavy Outlined Black Star
ASCII Hex Digit	✘
Alphabetic	✘
Bidi Control	✘
Bidi Mirrored	✘
Composition Exclusion	✘
Case Ignorable	✘
Changes When Casefolded	✘
Changes When Casemapped	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	✘
Changes When Lowercased	✘
Changes When Titlecased	✘
Changes When Uppercased	✘
Cased	✘
Full Composition Exclusion	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Dash	✘
Deprecated	✘
Diacritic	✘
Emoji Modifier Base	✘
Emoji Component	✘
Emoji Modifier	✘
Emoji Presentation	✘
Emoji	✘
Extender	✘
Extended Pictographic	✘
FC NFKC Closure	Heavy Outlined Black Star
Grapheme Cluster Break	Any
Grapheme Base	✔
Grapheme Extend	✘
Grapheme Link	✘
Hex Digit	✘
Hyphen	✘
ID Continue	✘
ID Start	✘
IDS Binary Operator	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and	✘
Ideographic	✘
Indic Mantra Category	—
Indic Positional Category	NA
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Jamo Short Name	—
Join Control	✘
Logical Order Exception	✘
Math	✘
Noncharacter Code Point	✘
NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Casefold	Heavy Outlined Black Star
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Other Alphabetic	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Other Grapheme Extend	✘
Other ID Continue	✘
Other ID Start	✘
Other Lowercase	✘
Other Math	✘
Other Uppercase	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark	✘
Pattern Syntax	✔
Pattern White Space	✘
Quotation Mark	✘
Regional Indicator	✘
Radical	✘
Sentence Break	Other
Soft Dotted	✘
Sentence Terminal	✘
Terminal Punctuation	✘
Unified Ideograph	✘
Variation Selector	✘
Word Break	Other
White Space	✘
XID Continue	✘
XID Start	✘
Expands On NFC	✘
Expands On NFD	✘
Expands On NFKC	✘
Expands On NFKD	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket	Heavy Outlined Black Star
Bidi Paired Bracket Type	None
East Asian Width	Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment	—
Joining Group	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type	Non Joining
Line Break	Alphabetic
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	not a number
Simple Case Folding	Heavy Outlined Black Star
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation	U