✹
Twelve Pointed Black Star
- Unicode
- U+2739
- Category
- Stars
- HTML Entity
- ✹
- CSS
- \2739
The Twelve Pointed Black Star (✹) is a typographical dingbat featuring a solid core with twelve sharp, evenly radiating rays. Originally included in the Unicode standard for compatibility with legacy font sets, it is primarily used as a decorative bullet point, a text border element, or an emphasis marker. In digital spaces, it often appears in social media bios or aesthetic text layouts to represent a spark, stylized sun, or burst of energy.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+10041 or Win+. then search
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2739 then Enter
- HTML
- ✹ or ✹
In Programming
While not a standard mathematical operator, this symbol is occasionally used in command-line interfaces and custom terminal prompts as a highly visible, decorative bullet point.
Tags
Zapf Dingbats
aesthetic star
bullet symbol
burst ornament
complex star
decoration
ornament
sparkle dingbat
star shape
starburst
sun symbol
text art decoration
twelve pointed
twelve-point star
typographic ornament