How to use star☆/heart♥/skull☠ symbols - Character Entities

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Ever wonder how people on myspace put a little heart next to their name? ♥ Like this ♥ Well here's how to do it.

How to use character entities 

There are two ways, one is simply copy and pasting. This does not work on all websites so you will want to try to stick to the other way. The second is using the code(which it will usually convert into anyway, when you go back and edit where ever it is that you placed the entity you'll see the code instead.

It starts with the and symbol, pound sign (&#)
and then a number here
; and a semicolon at the end

so it should go like this

&#[Insert number here];

Let's try it!

okay so we want a star and the number is 9734
plug it into the code and it should look like this ☆

That's it!

Popular Character Entities 

sunshine ☀ 9728

clouds ☁ 9729

rain ☂ 9730

star solid ★ 9733

star outline ☆ 9734

skull ☠ 9760

radioactive ☢ 9762

biohazard ☣ 9763

hammer and sickle ☭ 9773

peace sign ☮ 9774

smiley face ☺ 9786

spade solid ♠ 9824

heart outline ♡ 9825

diamond outline ♢ 9826

club solid ♣ 9827

spade outline ♤ 9828

heart solid ♥ 9829

diamond solid ♦ 9830

club outline ♧ 9831

note ♪ 9834

double note ♫ 9835

scissors ✂ 9986

thick scissors ✄ 9988

mail ✉ 9993

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