Circled Open Centre Eight Pointed Star vs Eight Pointed Black Star
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Property Comparison
| Property | ❂ 2742 | ✴ 2734 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Circled Open Centre Eight Pointed Star | Eight Pointed Black Star |
| Category | Stars & Asterisks | Stars & Asterisks |
| Block | Dingbats | Dingbats |
| Script | Zyyy | Zyyy |
| General Category | Other Symbol (So) | Other Symbol (So) |
| Bidirectional | ON | ON |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 2742 | 2734 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+2742 | U+2734 |
| HTML Decimal | ❂ | ✴ |
| HTML Hex | ❂ | ✴ |
| CSS | \2742 | \2734 |
| JavaScript | \u{2742} | \u{2734} |
| Python | \u2742 | \u2734 |
| UTF-8 | e2 9d 82 | e2 9c b4 |
How to Distinguish
Both Circled Open Centre Eight Pointed Star and Eight Pointed Black Star belong to the Stars & Asterisks category and the Dingbats 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.