About Pinwheel Star
Pinwheel Star is the Unicode character ✯ at codepoint U+272F in the Dingbats block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Technical Reference
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How to Use Pinwheel Star
To use the Pinwheel Star symbol (✯) in HTML, insert the
entity ✯ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ✯ works in any HTML-serialised document.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\272F';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u272F' evaluates to ✯. In Python source, write '\u272F'.
The character encodes to E2 9C AF as UTF-8 bytes and 272F as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 10031.
This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.