"★" redirects here. For the David Bowie album stylized as such, see
Blackstar (album).
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.
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| Name | Character | Code point |
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| asterisk operator |
∗ | U+2217 |
| star equals |
≛ | U+225B |
| star operator |
⋆ | U+22C6 |
| APL functional symbol circle star |
⍟ | U+235F |
| APL functional symbol star diaeresis |
⍣ | U+2363 |
| black star |
★ | U+2605 |
| white star |
☆ | U+2606 |
| star and crescent |
☪ | U+262A |
| outlined white star |
⚝ | U+269D |
| pentagram |
⛤ | U+26E4 |
| right-handed interlaced pentagram |
⛥ | U+26E5 |
| left-handed interlaced pentagram |
⛦ | U+26E6 |
| inverted pentagram |
⛧ | U+26E7 |
| stress outlined white star |
✩ | U+2729 |
| circled white star |
✪ | U+272A |
| open center black star |
✫ | U+272B |
| black center white star |
✬ | U+272C |
| outlined black star |
✭ | U+272D |
| heavy outlined black star |
✮ | U+272E |
| pinwheel star |
✯ | U+272F |
| shadowed white star |
✰ | U+2730 |
| white medium star |
⭐ | U+2B50 |
| black small star |
⭑ | U+2B51 |
| white small star |
⭒ | U+2B52 |
| glowing star |
🌟 | U+1F31F |
| shooting star |
🌠 | U+1F320 |
| Bamum script (Phase D) ngkeuri |
 | U+16910 |
| low asterisk |
⁎ | U+204E |
| full width asterisk |
＊ | U+FF0A |
| Arabic five-pointed star[a] |
٭ | U+066D |
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| combining asterisk above |
⃰ | U+20F0 |
| Star of David |
✡ | U+2721 |
| six-pointed black star |
✶ | U+2736 |
| Slavonic asterisk |
꙳ | U+A673 |
| six-pointed star with middle dot/hexagram |
🔯 | U+1F52F |
| Vai full stop |
꘎ | U+A60E |
| Six spoke asterisk, various weights |
🞵🞶🞷
🞸🞹🞺 | U+1F7B5 to U+1F7BA |
| Star of Life |
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| Bengali script section mark |
⁕ | U+2055 |
| Rejang script section mark |
 | U+A95F |
| eight-pointed black star |
✴ | U+2734 |
| eight-pointed pinwheel star |
✵ | U+2735 |
| eight-pointed rectilinear black star |
✷ | U+2737 |
| heavy eight-pointed rectilinear black star |
✸ | U+2738 |
| circled open center eight-pointed star |
❂ | U+2742 |
| eight-pointed cuneiform star |
𒀭 | U+1202D |
| rub-el-hizb |
۞ | U+06DE |
| Bamum script (Phase D) ngkyee |
 | U+16913 |
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| nine pointed white star (Baháʼí star) |
🟙 | U+1F7D9 |
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| twelve-pointed black star |
✹ | U+2739 |
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| sixteen pointed asterisk |
✺ | U+273A |
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| Name | Character | Code point | # of Stars |
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| sparkles (emoji) |
✨ | U+2728 | 3 (18 including background stars) |
| two asterisks aligned vertically |
⁑ | U+2051 | 2 |
| asterism |
⁂ | U+2042 | 3 |
| Canadian syllabics tth |
ᕯ | U+156F | 2 |
| Bamum script (Phase D) ndeux |
 | U+16909 | 2 |
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Although this character is defined in the Unicode reference as having five points, in some fonts it has a different number. In some, such as Arial Unicode MS, it even has six.[1]
