Teardrop-spoked Asterisk is the Unicode character ✻ at codepoint U+273B in the Dingbats block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard — or use one of the
encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.
Technical Reference
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How to Use Teardrop-spoked Asterisk
To use the Teardrop-spoked Asterisk 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: '\273B';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u273B' evaluates to ✻. In Python source, write '\u273B'.
The character encodes to E2 9C BB as UTF-8 bytes and 273B as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 10043.
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.