Glyph for U+2606 Source: Noto Sans Symbols 2
U+2606 White Star
U+2606 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+2600 to U+26FF Miscellaneous Symbols U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition . Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context . It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral . When changing direction it is not mirrored . If its East Asian Width is “narrow”, U+2606 forms a word with similar characters, which prevents a line break inside it. Otherwise it allows line breaks around it, except in some numeric contexts.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
In typography, a star is any of several glyphs with a number of points arrayed within an imaginary circle. A commonly used star symbol is the asterisk.
Representations
System
Representation
Nº
9734
UTF-8
E2 98 86
UTF-16
26 06
UTF-32
00 00 26 06
URL-Quoted
%E2%98%86
HTML hex reference
☆
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
☆
HTML named entity
☆
Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes)
A1 B8
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes)
A1 B8
Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes)
81 99
Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes)
A1 D9
Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes)
A1 B8
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes)
A1 F9
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
A1 F9
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
A1 F9
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes)
A1 D9
Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes)
A1 EE
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes)
A1 EE
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
A1 EE
Encoding: HZ (hex bytes)
7E 7B 21 6E 7E 7D
Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 21 79 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 21 79 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 21 79 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 21 79 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 21 79 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 21 79 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes)
1B 24 29 43 0E 21 59 0F
Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes)
D9 69
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes)
81 99
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
81 99
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
81 99
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Adobe Glyph List
whitestar
digraph
*1
Complete Record
Property
Value
Age (age)
1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na)
WHITE STAR
Unicode 1 Name (na1)
—
Block (blk)
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
General Category (gc)
Other Symbol
Script (sc)
Common
Bidirectional Category (bc)
Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc)
Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt)
none
Decomposition Mapping (dm)
Glyph for U+2606 White Star
Lowercase (Lower)
✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)
Glyph for U+2606 White Star
Lowercase Mapping (lc)
Glyph for U+2606 White Star
Uppercase (Upper)
✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)
Glyph for U+2606 White Star
Uppercase Mapping (uc)
Glyph for U+2606 White Star
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)
Glyph for U+2606 White Star
Titlecase Mapping (tc)
Glyph for U+2606 White Star
Case Folding (cf)
Glyph for U+2606 White Star
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
✘
Alphabetic (Alpha)
✘
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
✘
Composition Exclusion (CE)
✘
Case Ignorable (CI)
✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
✘
Cased (Cased)
✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
✘
Dash (Dash)
✘
Deprecated (Dep)
✘
Diacritic (Dia)
✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
✘
Emoji Component (EComp)
✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
✘
Emoji (Emoji)
✘
Extender (Ext)
✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC)
Glyph for U+2606 White Star
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB)
Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
✘
Hex Digit (Hex)
✘
Hyphen (Hyphen)
✘
ID Continue (IDC)
✘
ID Start (IDS)
✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
✘
IDSU (IDSU)
0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue)
0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start)
0
Ideographic (Ideo)
✘
InCB (InCB)
None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
—
Indic Positional Category (InPC)
NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC)
Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
—
Join Control (Join_C)
✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)
✘
Math (Math)
✔
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC)
Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC)
Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF)
Glyph for U+2606 White Star
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)
Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)
Glyph for U+2606 White Star
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC)
Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
✘
Other ID Start (OIDS)
✘
Other Lowercase (OLower)
✘
Other Math (OMath)
✔
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
✔
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
✘
Quotation Mark (QMark)
✘
Regional Indicator (RI)
✘
Radical (Radical)
✘
Sentence Break (SB)
Other
Soft Dotted (SD)
✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
✘
Variation Selector (VS)
✘
Word Break (WB)
Other
White Space (WSpace)
✘
XID Continue (XIDC)
✘
XID Start (XIDS)
✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb)
Glyph for U+2606 White Star
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt)
None
East Asian Width (ea)
ambiguous
Hangul Syllable Type (hst)
Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
—
Joining Group (jg)
No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt)
Non Joining
Line Break (lb)
Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic)
Numeric Type (nt)
none
Numeric Value (nv)
not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf)
Glyph for U+2606 White Star
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)
U