✱
Heavy Asterisk
- Unicode
- U+2731
- Category
- Stars
- HTML Entity
- ✱
- CSS
- \2731
The Heavy Asterisk (✱) is a bold, six-pointed typographical symbol that originally comes from the classic ITC Zapf Dingbats font collection. It is commonly used as an eye-catching bullet point, a decorative text break, or to strongly emphasize footnotes and required fields in forms. Unlike the standard keyboard asterisk, its thicker strokes make it ideal for graphic design and stylized social media posts.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt + 10033 or Win + . then search "asterisk"
- macOS
- Control + Command + Space then search "heavy asterisk"
- Linux
- Ctrl + Shift + U then 2731
- HTML
- ✱ or ✱
In Programming
While the standard asterisk (*) is universally used for multiplication and pointers in programming, the Heavy Asterisk is strictly a typographical character. Developers occasionally use it in UI design to highlight mandatory input fields or within comment blocks for decorative formatting.
Tags
bold asterisk
bold star
decoration
decorative bullet
footnote
footnote marker symbol
graphic design star
heavy star
reference mark
six-pointed star
star bullet point
star shape
thick asterisk