✻
Teardrop Spoked Asterisk
- Unicode
- U+273B
- Category
- Stars
- HTML Entity
- ✻
- CSS
- \273B
The Teardrop Spoked Asterisk (✻) is a decorative dingbat symbol featuring six teardrop-shaped petals radiating from a central point. Originally included in the Unicode Standard as part of the classic ITC Zapf Dingbats font collection, it is widely used in typography to add elegant flair to document layouts, lists, and section breaks. Today, it frequently appears in social media bios, aesthetic text dividers, and digital design as a softer, floral alternative to the standard asterisk.
How to Type
- Windows
- Win + . then select the symbols tab, or Alt + 10043
- macOS
- Control + Command + Space then search "teardrop"
- Linux
- Ctrl + Shift + U then 273b
- HTML
- ✻
In Programming
Unlike the standard asterisk commonly used for multiplication or pointers, the teardrop spoked asterisk is purely decorative and holds no syntactic meaning in compilers. It is occasionally used in string literals to format console outputs or to create visually appealing text dividers in user interfaces.
Tags
asterisk
decoration
floral asterisk
floral dingbat
flower
flower asterisk symbol
petal symbol text
section divider symbol
six petal star
soft star symbol
star shape
teardrop