Sixteen-pointed asterisk

Meaning and uses

A starburst of sixteen thin rays, halfway between a star and a sun. It is a good choice for dividers and for marking something new or special.

Unicode details

✺ is the Unicode character named SIXTEEN POINTED ASTERISK, code point U+273A, 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 273A 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 “sixteen pointed asterisk”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 273a, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use ✺. In a CSS content property, use "\273A".