What 🞴 means
It can mark emphasis, decorate a line, or introduce an asterisk-style note.
In Wingdings 2, a decorative symbol font, this design occupied the slot named pentasterisk6. Unicode encoded it as a character, separate from that font-specific slot. It belongs to a five-spoked series that grows heavier, alongside distinct six- and eight-spoked asterisk series.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
2
Related characters
1
Combination ideas
4Bold lead-in for a short note
Frames a heading with heavy ornaments
Centred section break between parts of a text
Sparkly decoration for a caption or bio
Questions people ask
1Why does 🞴 look different?
A font draws this text symbol, so its weight can vary; one without the glyph may show a box or replacement mark.
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How to type or find 🞴
- Search it as
- asterisk · star symbol · heavy asterisk · thick star · pentasterisk6 · Wingdings star · Wingdings 2 · decorative asterisk
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
🞴CSS
\1F7B4How to type 🞴
Use a Unicode-capable character picker; choosing the old Wingdings 2 slot does not create portable text.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🞴
HTML hex
🞴
CSS content
content: "\1F7B4";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%9E%B4
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.