❁

Eight Petalled Rosette

Unicode
U+2741
Category
Hearts
Symbol Sets
Pretty Symbols
HTML Entity
❁
CSS
\2741
The Eight Petalled Rosette (❁) is a decorative dingbat representing a stylized flower or botanical ornament. Originally part of the classic ITC Zapf Dingbats typeface, it was adopted into the Unicode standard to preserve typographic compatibility. Today, it is commonly used as an elegant bullet point, a text divider in publishing, or an aesthetic floral accent in social media bios and plain-text art.

How to Type

Windows
In Word: type 2741, then press Alt + X. Other apps have no standard Windows shortcut for it — copy it from this page
macOS
Control + Command + Space then search "rosette"
Linux
Ctrl + Shift + U then 2741 then Enter
HTML
❁

In Programming

While not used in programming logic, this symbol is frequently used in front-end web development as a custom CSS bullet point (using content: "\2741";) for decorative styling in lists and menus.

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Tags

Zapf Dingbats flower aesthetic flower symbol bloom botanical ornament decorative eight petal flower elegant bullet floral dingbat flower flower symbol heart petal rosette rosette flower social media decoration text art flower

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