Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk vs White Medium Star
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Property Comparison
| Property | ✻ 273B | ⭐ 2B50 |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk | White Medium Star |
| Category | Stars & Asterisks | Stars & Asterisks |
| Block | Dingbats | Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows |
| Script | Zyyy | Zyyy |
| General Category | Other Symbol (So) | Other Symbol (So) |
| Bidirectional | ON | ON |
Encoding Comparison
| Format | 273B | 2B50 |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+273B | U+2B50 |
| HTML Decimal | ✻ | ⭐ |
| HTML Hex | ✻ | ⭐ |
| CSS | \273B | \2B50 |
| JavaScript | \u{273B} | \u{2B50} |
| Python | \u273b | \u2b50 |
| UTF-8 | e2 9c bb | e2 ad 90 |
How to Distinguish
Both Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk and White Medium 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.