About Eight-spoked Asterisk
Eight-spoked Asterisk is the Unicode character ✳️ at codepoint U+2733 in the Dingbats block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Developer Notes
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How to Use Eight-spoked Asterisk
To use the Eight-spoked Asterisk symbol (✳️) in HTML, insert the
entity ✳️ directly into your markup.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\2733';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2733' evaluates to ✳️. In Python source, write '\u2733'.
The character encodes to E2 9C B3 as UTF-8 bytes and 2733 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 10035.
This is a fully-qualified emoji and should render with colour on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. Appearance may vary between platforms, but the underlying codepoint is identical everywhere.