Black florette

Meaning and uses

A solid five-petal flower. It is a staple of cute and aesthetic text, as in ✿ hello ✿, and it displays as plain text on almost every device.

Unicode details

✿ is the Unicode character named BLACK FLORETTE, code point U+273F, in the Dingbats block. It was added in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, and Unicode classes it as a symbol (general category So).

It is not an emoji, so it keeps the colour and size of the text around it.

Tap a code to copy it:

How to type ✿

• On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
• In Microsoft Word on Windows, type 273F and then press Alt+X to turn the code into ✿.
• On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “black florette”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 273f, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use ✿. In a CSS content property, use "\273F".