What ✲ means
It marks a passage, section break, or decorative pause in text.
Unicode inherited ✲ from the classic ITC Zapf Dingbats font collection, where decorative symbols were designed for printers and typesetters needing ornamental accents. The character has no fixed grammatical role, leaving writers free to use it as an aesthetic flourish or divider.
It reads as a deliberate typographic flourish and stands out among plain text.
Part of collections
Don't confuse it with
2
Related characters
2
Combination ideas
3Flags a footnote or side note.
Section break between paragraphs.
Frames a short label.
Questions people ask
1Does ✲ look the same in every font?
No. Point count, stroke thickness, and the diameter of the open centre vary between typefaces.
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How to type or find ✲
- Search it as
- asterisk · decorative asterisk · text divider · asterisk ornament · star dingbat · open center star
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
✲CSS
\2732Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
✲
HTML hex
✲
CSS content
content: "\2732";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%9C%B2
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.