✺
Sixteen Pointed Asterisk
- Unicode
- U+273A
- Category
- Stars
- HTML Entity
- ✺
- CSS
- \273A
The Sixteen Pointed Asterisk (✺) is a decorative dingbat featuring sixteen distinct rays radiating from a central core. Originally designed for the classic ITC Zapf Dingbats font used in print typography, it serves as an ornate alternative to a standard bullet point. Today, it frequently appears in digital design, social media bios, and aesthetic text headers to mimic a sunburst, a sparkling star, or a stylized flower.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt + 10042
- macOS
- Control + Command + Space then search
- Linux
- Ctrl + Shift + U then 273a
- HTML
- ✺
In Programming
While not part of standard programming syntax, developers frequently use this symbol in CSS as a custom list marker (using list-style-type: "\273A";) or to add decorative visual flair to text-based UI components.
Tags
16-pointed star
burst symbol
complex
decoration
flower star symbol
ornament
ornate bullet
sixteen pointed
star shape
starburst text
sunburst dingbat
sunburst symbol