What 🞲 means
It is a five-armed typographic star. “Spoked” describes the arms spreading from the centre, like spokes in a wheel; “heavy” describes their thickness. It belongs to a series of five-spoked asterisks with different stroke weights.
In a message, it can draw attention to a line or decorate a name. It does not by itself express a particular emotion. Use it where you want the shape; when a form, command or formatting instruction asks for *, type the ordinary keyboard asterisk instead.
Decorative and visually emphatic; its thick strokes give it more visual weight than an ordinary asterisk.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
4Worth knowing
- This design has a symbol-font past: a 2011 Unicode proposal identifies its counterpart in Wingdings 2, a font containing pictures and signs instead of ordinary letters.
Questions people ask
1Why do I see a box, or a different-looking star?
It depends on font support. A box can mean your device has no available font for this character. Fonts that support it may draw its outline, thickness and spacing differently.
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How to type or find 🞲
- Search it as
- heavy asterisk · five-spoked asterisk · thick star symbol · decorative asterisk
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🞲\1F7B2Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.