✽
Heavy Teardrop Asterisk
- Unicode
- U+273D
- Category
- Stars
- HTML Entity
- ✽
- CSS
- \273D
The Heavy Teardrop Asterisk (✽) is a decorative typographical symbol featuring six rounded, teardrop-shaped petals radiating from a central point. Originally part of the classic Zapf Dingbats font collection, it was added to Unicode to preserve stylized text elements across different platforms. Today, designers and everyday users commonly feature it as an elegant bullet point, a decorative text divider, or an aesthetic flourish in social media bios.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+10045 or Win+. then search
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 273d
- HTML
- ✽ or ✽
In Programming
While it lacks a specific mathematical or semantic function in programming, developers often use the Heavy Teardrop Asterisk in UI design and console outputs as a visually appealing delimiter or decorative list marker.
Tags
Zapf Dingbats
aesthetic
bold
bullet point
decoration
dingbat
flower
heavy teardrop
rounded petals
six petals
social media bio
star shape
text divider
typographic ornament