Very Heavy Five-Spoked Asterisk

It is a typographic mark whose role comes from context. The five-spoke asterisk can mark emphasis, a note, or ornament when the surrounding words or layout make that clear.

The pentasterisk5 Wingdings 2 symbol has a documented font-to-Unicode history: a 2012 Unicode draft matches it to the Wingdings 2 glyph w-2216. Unicode says the wider geometric-shape repertoire mostly came from Wingdings and Webdings, symbol fonts intended to complement existing geometric marks.

Five-spoked asterisks appear at graded weights, making 🞳 one member of a typographic series.

How do I type the Wingdings 2 symbol?

Use Unicode input or a character picker, not the font shortcut.

In an editor with a character map, search for the name or U+1F7B3. The old Wingdings 2 mapping assigns the Ø key to its pentasterisk5 slot. That key produces the matching drawing only while that font mapping is active; it does not type 🞳 in ordinary text.

Why does this symbol look different in another font?

The font draws the outline; Unicode identifies the character.

Unicode does not prescribe one universal outline for 🞳. Fonts with a glyph may draw its spokes or stroke weight differently.

A font without the glyph may show a fallback box. If the character appears missing, the issue is font support; its Unicode identity remains U+1F7B3.