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Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Pinwheel Asterisk Symbol

U+2743 features six drop-like rays with a thick outline. Each has one half filled with black and the other half left transparent. The star appears to be spinning around as a result of the drawing style.

Although symbol U+2743 is considered an asterisk, its shape reminds of a flower. Unicode contains more icons with drop-shaped rays. A heavy teardrop-spoked asterisk, for example, and a shape with a circle in the center.

The symbol "Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Pinwheel Asterisk" is part of the "Dingbats" Block's "Stars, asterisks, and snowflakes" Subblock and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
 

Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Pinwheel Asterisk Symbol Information

Symbol Name
Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Pinwheel Asterisk
Unicode Version
1.1 (June 1993)
Unicode
U+2743
CSS Code
\2743
Hex Code
❃
HTML Code
❃
Latex
\ding{99}
Alt Code
10051
Symbol

Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Pinwheel Asterisk Symbol Encoding

UTF-8
0xE2 0x9D 0x83
UTF-16
0x2743
UTF-32
0x00002743

Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Pinwheel AsteriskSymbol's PNG and SVG files

Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Pinwheel Asterisk Symbol in Latex

Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Pinwheel Asterisk
1\documentclass{article} 2\usepackage{pifont} 3\ding{99} 4\end{document}

How to add heavy teardrop-spoked pinwheel asterisk symbol via keyboard on different Operating systems

You can type the heavy teardrop-spoked pinwheel asterisk symbol on most modern devices with the help of following methods:

How to type heavy teardrop-spoked pinwheel asterisk symbol on Microsoft Word

You can type the heavy teardrop-spoked pinwheel asterisk in Microsoft Word using steps mentioned below:

  • Place your cursor in the text area where you need to insert the symbol and type 2743
  • Without moving the cursor press keys Alt + x together
  • The original 2743 is now transformed into

How to type heavy teardrop-spoked pinwheel asterisk symbol on Microsoft Windows

You can type the heavy teardrop-spoked pinwheel asterisk on Microsoft windows using following steps:

  • Hold Alt and press 10051 to type heavy teardrop-spoked pinwheel asterisk on your windows machine.

How to type heavy teardrop-spoked pinwheel asterisk symbol on Mac OS

You can type the heavy teardrop-spoked pinwheel asterisk 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 Teardrop-Spoked Pinwheel Asterisk" in the search field at the top and press Enter
  • The symbol should appear. Click on it to insert it into your text
Mac OS Character Viewer
Mac OS Character Viewer

How to type heavy teardrop-spoked pinwheel asterisk symbol on Linux

You can type the heavy teardrop-spoked pinwheel asterisk 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 2743 consecutively
  • And then press ↵ Enter , the desired symbol will be added to your document

How to type heavy teardrop-spoked pinwheel asterisk symbol on IOS and Android

The easiest way to type the heavy teardrop-spoked pinwheel asterisk symbol on ios and android is to copy and paste it wherever you need it.

How to use heavy teardrop-spoked pinwheel asterisk in CSS

//CSS Example
1span { 2 content: \2743; 3 }

How to use heavy teardrop-spoked pinwheel asterisk in HTML

//HTML Example
1<span>&#10051;</span>

Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Pinwheel Asterisk symbol representation in programming languages

Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Pinwheel Asterisksymbol's representation in different programming languages can be found in table below:

LanguageRepresentation
Rust
\u{2743}
Ruby
\u{2743}
Python
\u2743
PHP
\u{2743}
Perl
\x{2743}
Java
\u2743
Modern JavaScript - Since ES6
\u{2743}
JavaScript
\u2743
Go
\u2743
C#
\u2743
C and C++
\u2743
Bash and Zsh - inside echo -e
\u2743
RFC 5137
\u'2743'