Dragon vs Eight Pointed Black Star
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Property Comparison
| Property | 🐉 1F409 | ✴ 2734 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Dragon | Eight Pointed Black Star |
| Category | Stars & Asterisks | Stars & Asterisks |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs | Dingbats |
| Script | Zyyy | Zyyy |
| General Category | Other Symbol (So) | Other Symbol (So) |
| Bidirectional | ON | ON |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 1F409 | 2734 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F409 | U+2734 |
| HTML Decimal | 🐉 | ✴ |
| HTML Hex | 🐉 | ✴ |
| CSS | \1F409 | \2734 |
| JavaScript | \u{1F409} | \u{2734} |
| Python | \U0001f409 | \u2734 |
| UTF-8 | f0 9f 90 89 | e2 9c b4 |
How to Distinguish
Both Dragon and Eight Pointed Black Star are in the Stars & Asterisks category but reside in different Unicode blocks. Check the codepoint to tell them apart.
Tip: Paste the character into a hex editor or use
charCodeAt()
in JavaScript to check the actual codepoint.