Heavy Sparkle vs White Star
VS
Property Comparison
| Property | ❈ 2748 | ☆ 2606 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Heavy Sparkle | White Star |
| Category | Stars & Asterisks | Stars & Asterisks |
| Block | Dingbats | Miscellaneous Symbols |
| Script | Zyyy | Zyyy |
| General Category | Other Symbol (So) | Other Symbol (So) |
| Bidirectional | ON | ON |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 2748 | 2606 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+2748 | U+2606 |
| HTML Decimal | ❈ | ☆ |
| HTML Hex | ❈ | ☆ |
| CSS | \2748 | \2606 |
| JavaScript | \u{2748} | \u{2606} |
| Python | \u2748 | \u2606 |
| UTF-8 | e2 9d 88 | e2 98 86 |
How to Distinguish
Both Heavy Sparkle and White 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.