What 🞾 means
From Microsoft's Wingdings 2 font, made a real character in 2014.
Wingdings-style fonts, around since Windows 3.1 in 1992, swap letters for pictures: you type an ordinary letter and the font draws a symbol. Change the font and the symbol turns back into that letter, which garbled countless documents. Unicode gave these shapes their own code points so they stay the same whatever font is used.
🞾 belongs to a run of one shape in rising stroke weight: light, medium, bold, 🞾 heavy and very heavy. Designers pick the step that matches the weight of the surrounding text.
In practice it marks things rather than says things: a bullet before list items, a row like 🞾 🞾 🞾 between sections, or a marker drawing the eye to a note. It carries no emotion of its own.
Neutral and decorative; it organises or ornaments text and expresses no feeling.
Many fonts lack it, so some readers will see an empty box.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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4Questions people ask
2Is 🞾 an emoji?
No. It is a plain text symbol drawn by your font, with no colourful version. The similar is an emoji.
Why do I see a box instead of 🞾?
Your font has no drawing for it. The character is still there; a font with wide symbol coverage will show it.
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How to type or find 🞾
- Also called
- octasterisk4 · heavy asterisk · thick eight-pointed asterisk
- Search it as
- thick asterisk · eight spoked asterisk · 8 armed star · bold asterisk · star bullet · text divider · wingdings 2 · dingbat
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🞾\1F7BECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.