Teardrop-spoked asterisk copy & paste
✻ is teardrop-spoked asterisk, a plain-text Unicode symbol from the Dingbats block. On Aesthetic Symbols it lives in the stars & celestial and flowers & nature collections, tagged star, sparkle, flower. As plain text it takes on the font and colour of wherever you paste it — a bio, a username, a caption or a stream title.
- Unicode
- U+273B
- HTML entity
- ✻
- CSS content
- \273B
- JavaScript
- \u{273B}
- UTF-8 bytes
- E2 9C BB
- Made of
U+273B ✻ · Dingbats
Will it show up? · Long-established text symbols
Plain-text characters from blocks that mainstream desktop and mobile fonts have covered for years. These are the safe ones.
Worked out from how each character is encoded, not from a test on a real device.