Black Smiling Face vs Black Star
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Property Comparison
| Property | ☻ 263B | ★ 2605 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Black Smiling Face | Black Star |
| Category | Stars & Asterisks | Stars & Asterisks |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols | Miscellaneous Symbols |
| Script | Zyyy | Zyyy |
| General Category | Other Symbol (So) | Other Symbol (So) |
| Bidirectional | ON | ON |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 263B | 2605 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+263B | U+2605 |
| HTML Decimal | ☻ | ★ |
| HTML Hex | ☻ | ★ |
| CSS | \263B | \2605 |
| JavaScript | \u{263B} | \u{2605} |
| Python | \u263b | \u2605 |
| UTF-8 | e2 98 bb | e2 98 85 |
How to Distinguish
Both Black Smiling Face and Black Star belong to the Stars & Asterisks category and the Miscellaneous Symbols block. Compare their codepoints and visual rendering to distinguish them.
Tip: Paste the character into a hex editor or use
charCodeAt()
in JavaScript to check the actual codepoint.