Heavy Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black Star Symbol ✸

The symbol "Heavy Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black Star" is part of the "Dingbats" Block's "Stars and asterisks" Subblock and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.

Heavy Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black Star Symbol Information

Symbol Name	Heavy Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black Star
Unicode Version	1.1 (June 1993)
Unicode	U+2738
CSS Code	\2738

Hex Code	✸
HTML Code	✸
Latex	\ding{88}
Alt Code	2738
Symbol	✸

Heavy Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black Star Symbol Encoding

UTF-8	0xE2 0x9C 0xB8
UTF-16	0x2738
UTF-32	0x00002738

Heavy Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black StarSymbol's PNG and SVG files

Heavy Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black Star Symbol in Latex

Heavy Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black Star

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pifont}
\ding{88}
\end{document}

How to add heavy eight pointed rectilinear black star symbol via keyboard on different Operating systems

You can type the heavy eight pointed rectilinear black star symbol on most modern devices with the help of following methods:

How to type heavy eight pointed rectilinear black star symbol on Microsoft Word

You can type the heavy eight pointed rectilinear black star in Microsoft Word using steps mentioned below:

Place your cursor in the text area where you need to insert the symbol and type 2738
Without moving the cursor press keys Alt + x together
The original 2738 is now transformed into ✸

How to type heavy eight pointed rectilinear black star symbol on Microsoft Windows

You can type the heavy eight pointed rectilinear black star on Microsoft windows using following steps:

Hold Alt and press 2738 to type heavy eight pointed rectilinear black star on your windows machine.

How to type heavy eight pointed rectilinear black star symbol on Mac OS

You can type the heavy eight pointed rectilinear black star on Mac OS using following steps:

Place your cursor in the text area where you need to insert the symbol
Press Ctrl + ⌘ Command + ⎵ Space to bring up the Character Viewer. Alternatively, choose Edit ⇒ Emoji & Symbols
Type "Heavy Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black Star" in the search field at the top and press Enter
The symbol should appear. Click on it to insert it into your text

How to type heavy eight pointed rectilinear black star symbol on Linux

You can type the heavy eight pointed rectilinear black star on Linux using following steps:

Place your cursor in the text area where you need to insert the symbol
Hold ⇧ Shift + Ctrl and press the letter + U
Press keys 2738 consecutively
And then press ↵ Enter , the desired symbol will be added to your document

How to type heavy eight pointed rectilinear black star symbol on IOS and Android

The easiest way to type the heavy eight pointed rectilinear black star symbol on ios and android is to copy and paste it wherever you need it.

How to use heavy eight pointed rectilinear black star in CSS

//CSS Example

span {
    content: \2738;
  }

How to use heavy eight pointed rectilinear black star in HTML

//HTML Example

<span>&#10040;</span>

Heavy Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black Star symbol representation in programming languages

Heavy Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black Starsymbol's representation in different programming languages can be found in table below:

Language	Representation
Rust	\u{2738}
Ruby	\u{2738}
Python	\u2738
PHP	\u{2738}
Perl	\x{2738}
Java	\u2738
Modern JavaScript - Since ES6	\u{2738}
JavaScript	\u2738
Go	\u2738
C#	\u2738
C and C++	\u2738
Bash and Zsh - inside echo -e	\u2738
RFC 5137	\u'2738'