Twelve Pointed Black Star is the Unicode character ✹ at codepoint U+2739 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 Twelve Pointed Black Star
To use the Twelve Pointed Black 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: '\2739';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2739' evaluates to ✹. In Python source, write '\u2739'.
The character encodes to E2 9C B9 as UTF-8 bytes and 2739 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 10041.
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.