Sixteen Pointed Asterisk Symbol ✺

A form with sixteen straight rays. It resembles a snowflake, a flower, a star, or even the Sun – use it in any way that makes sense in your scenario.

The sixteen pointed asterisk, like many other early Unicode characters, has a concise and straightforward design. It's made out of thin black lines with no extraneous parts. Despite its brief appearance, the snowflake appears three-dimensional and colorful (at least brilliant) due to the abundance of rays.

The symbol "Sixteen Pointed Asterisk" is found in the "Stars and asterisks" Subblock of the "Dingbats" Block and was added to Unicode in 1993 as part of Unicode version 1.1.

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Sixteen Pointed Asterisk Symbol Information

Symbol Name Sixteen Pointed Asterisk
Unicode Version 1.1 (June 1993)
Unicode U+273A
CSS Code \273A
Hex Code ✺
HTML Code ✺
Latex \ding{90}
Alt Code 273A

Sixteen Pointed Asterisk Symbol Encoding

UTF-8 0xE2 0x9C 0xBA
UTF-16 0x273A
UTF-32 0x0000273A


Sixteen Pointed Asterisk symbol's PNG and SVG files


How to type sixteen pointed asterisk symbol in latex

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\usepackage{pifont}
\ding{90}
\end{document}

How to add sixteen pointed asterisk symbol via keyboard on different Operating systems

You can type the sixteen pointed asterisk on most modern devices with the help of following methods:

How to type sixteen pointed asterisk symbol on Microsoft Word

You can type the sixteen pointed asterisk on microsoft Microsoft Word using steps mentioned below:

  • Place your cursor in the text area where you need to insert the symbol and type 2 7 3 A
  • Without moving the cursor press keys Alt + x together
  • The original 2 7 3 A is now transformed into ✺

How to type sixteen pointed asterisk symbol on Microsoft Windows

You can type the sixteen pointed asterisk on Microsoft windows using following steps:

  • Hold Alt and press 2 7 3 A to type sixteen pointed asterisk on your windows machine.

How to type sixteen pointed asterisk symbol on Mac OS

You can type the sixteen pointed 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 “Sixteen Pointed Asterisk” 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 sixteen pointed asterisk symbol on Mac OS
    How to type sixteen pointed asterisk symbol on Mac OS

How to type sixteen pointed asterisk symbol on Linux

You can type the sixteen pointed 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 2 7 3 A consecutively
  • And then press ↵ Enter , the desired symbol will be added to your document

How to type sixteen pointed asterisk symbol on IOS and Android

The easiest way to type the sixteen pointed asterisk on ios and android is to copy and paste it wherever you need it.


How to use sixteen pointed asterisk in CSS

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span {
content: "\273A";
}

How to type sixteen pointed asterisk in HTML

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<span>&#10042;</span>

Sixteen Pointed Asterisk symbol representation in programming languages

sixteen pointed asterisk's representation in different programming languages can be found in table below:

Language Representation
Rust \u{273A}
Ruby \u{273A}
Python \u273A
PHP \u{273A}
Perl "\x{273A}"
Java \u273A
Modern JavaScript - Since ES6 \u{273A}
JavaScript \u273A
Go \u273A
C# \u273A
C and C++ \u273A
Bash and Zsh - inside echo -e \u273A
RFC 5137 \u'273A'
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