✼
Open Centre Teardrop Asterisk
- Unicode
- U+273C
- Category
- Stars
- HTML Entity
- ✼
- CSS
- \273C
The Open Centre Teardrop Asterisk (✼) is a decorative typographical symbol originating from the classic ITC Zapf Dingbats font. It features teardrop-shaped points radiating from a hollow circular center, giving it the appearance of a stylized floral asterisk. It is frequently used as an elegant bullet point, text divider, or aesthetic embellishment in social media bios and digital stationery.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+10044
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "asterisk"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 273c then Enter
- HTML
- ✼
In Programming
While rarely used in raw code or mathematics, this symbol occasionally appears in front-end web development as a custom list bullet (using CSS list-style-type: "\273C";) or within command-line interfaces for decorative formatting.
Tags
Zapf Dingbats
aesthetic
bullet point
decoration
dingbat
floral asterisk
flower
hollow
hollow asterisk
open teardrop
social media bio
star shape
text divider
typographic ornament