Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk

Group: Stars

Keywords

stars

About this character

Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk belongs to the Stars group and is encoded at U+273B. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+273B
Hex: 273B
Decimal: 10043
HTML: ✻
CSS: \273B
JavaScript: \u273B
Python: \u273B
UTF-8: E2 9C BB

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Star Of David U+2721
Black Four Pointed Star U+2726
White Four Pointed Star U+2727
Circled White Star U+272A
Open Centre Black Star U+272B
Black Centre White Star U+272C
Outlined Black Star U+272D
Heavy Outlined Black Star U+272E
Pinwheel Star U+272F
Shadowed White Star U+2730
Heavy Asterisk U+2731
Open Centre Asterisk U+2732
Eight Spoked Asterisk U+2733
Eight Pointed Black Star U+2734
Eight Pointed Pinwheel Star U+2735
Six Pointed Black Star U+2736
Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black Star U+2737
Heavy Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black Star U+2738
Twelve Pointed Black Star U+2739
Sixteen Pointed Asterisk U+273A
Open Centre Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk U+273C
Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk U+273D
Six Petalled Black And White Florette U+273E
Black Florette U+273F

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.