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Heavy Eight Pointed Rectilinear Star

Unicode
U+2738
Category
Stars
Symbol Sets
Star Symbols
HTML Entity
✸
CSS
\2738
The Heavy Eight Pointed Rectilinear Star (✸) is a bold, geometric Dingbat symbol featuring eight distinct, straight-edged points. Originally added to Unicode to standardize classic typographic ornaments, it is frequently used to draw attention to list items or represent a burst in graphic design. On social media, it serves as a striking bullet point or an aesthetic text divider.

How to Type

Windows
In Word: type 2738, then press Alt + X. Other apps have no standard Windows shortcut for it — copy it from this page
macOS
Control+Command+Space then search "star"
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+U then type 2738 and press Enter
HTML
✸

In Programming

Developers occasionally use this symbol in CSS as a custom list marker (list-style-type: '\2738') or within UI design to highlight new features and special announcements.

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Tags

aesthetic bullet bold bold star burst symbol decoration dingbat star eight pointed geometric ornament heavy heavy star social media symbol sparkle dingbat star shape text divider typographic ornament

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