Star (glyph)
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.
Four points
✦ ✧ ✨ ⌑ 𖥔
- U+2726 ✦ BLACK FOUR POINTED STAR (any solid colour, such as ✦)
- U+2727 ✧ WHITE FOUR POINTED STAR (any outline colour, such as ✧)
- U+2728 ✨ SPARKLES (Emoji)
- U+2311 ⌑ SQUARE LOZENGE
- U+16954 𖥔 BAMUM LETTER PHASE-D SHII
Five points
◌⃰ ≛ ⋆ ⍟ ⍣ ★ ☆ ☪ ⚝ ⛤ ⛥ ⛦ ⛧ ✩ ✪ ✫ ✬ ✭ ✮ ✯ ✰ ⭐ ⭑ ⭒ 🌟 🌠 𖤐 ٭
- U+20F0 ◌⃰ COMBINING ASTERISK ABOVE
- U+225B ≛ STAR EQUALS
- U+22C6 ⋆ STAR OPERATOR
- U+235F ⍟ APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL CIRCLE STAR
- U+2363 ⍣ APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL STAR DIAERESIS
- U+2605 ★ BLACK STAR
- U+2606 ☆ WHITE STAR
- U+262A ☪ STAR AND CRESCENT
- U+269D ⚝ OUTLINED WHITE STAR
- U+26E4 ⛤ PENTAGRAM
- U+26E5 ⛥ RIGHT-HANDED INTERLACED PENTAGRAM
- U+26E6 ⛦ LEFT-HANDED INTERLACED PENTAGRAM
- U+26E7 ⛧ INVERTED PENTAGRAM
- U+2729 ✩ STRESS OUTLINED WHITE STAR
- U+272A ✪ CIRCLED WHITE STAR
- U+272B ✫ OPEN CENTRE BLACK STAR
- U+272C ✬ BLACK CENTRE WHITE STAR
- U+272D ✭ OUTLINED BLACK STAR
- U+272E ✮ HEAVY OUTLINED BLACK STAR
- U+272F ✯ PINWHEEL STAR
- U+2730 ✰ SHADOWED WHITE STAR
- U+2B50 ⭐ WHITE MEDIUM STAR
- U+2B51 ⭑ BLACK SMALL STAR
- U+2B52 ⭒ WHITE SMALL STAR
- U+1F31F 🌟 GLOWING STAR
- U+1F320 🌠 SHOOTING STAR
- U+16910 𖤐 BAMUM LETTER PHASE-D NGKEURI
- U+204E ⁎ LOW ASTERISK
- U+066D ٭ ARABIC FIVE POINTED STAR[a]
See also
Six points
∗ ✡ ✶ ꙳ 🔯 ꘎ ＊ 🞺 
- U+2217 ∗ ASTERISK OPERATOR May be used for the telephone star key.[2]
- U+2721 ✡ STAR OF DAVID
- U+2736 ✶ SIX POINTED BLACK STAR
- U+A673 ꙳ SLAVONIC ASTERISK
- U+1F52F 🔯 SIX POINTED STAR WITH MIDDLE DOT
- U+A60E ꘎ VAI FULL STOP
- U+FF0A ＊ FULLWIDTH ASTERISK
- Six spoke asterisk, various weights
- U+1F7B5 🞵 LIGHT SIX SPOKED ASTERISK
- U+1F7B6 🞶 MEDIUM SIX SPOKED ASTERISK
- U+1F7B7 🞷 BOLD SIX SPOKED ASTERISK
- U+1F7B8 🞸 HEAVY SIX SPOKED ASTERISK
- U+1F7B9 🞹 VERY HEAVY SIX SPOKED ASTERISK
- U+1F7BA 🞺 EXTREMELY HEAVY SIX SPOKED ASTERISK
- Star of Life: (not in Unicode)
See also
Seven points
Eight points
⁕ ꥟ ✴ ✵ ✷ ✸ 𒀭۞ 𖤓
- U+2055 ⁕ FLOWER PUNCTUATION MARK
- U+A95F ꥟ REJANG SECTION MARK
- U+2734 ✴ EIGHT POINTED BLACK STAR
- U+2735 ✵ EIGHT POINTED PINWHEEL STAR
- U+2737 ✷ EIGHT POINTED RECTILINEAR BLACK STAR
- U+2738 ✸ HEAVY EIGHT POINTED RECTILINEAR BLACK STAR
- U+2742 ❂ CIRCLED OPEN CENTRE EIGHT POINTED STAR
- U+1202D 𒀭 CUNEIFORM SIGN AN
- U+06DE ۞ ARABIC START OF RUB EL HIZB
- U+16913 𖤓 BAMUM LETTER PHASE-D NGKYEE
Nine points
🟙
- U+1F7D9 🟙 NINE POINTED WHITE STAR (Baháʼí symbols#Nine-pointed star)
See also
Ten points
Eleven points
𖣔
- U+168D4 𖣔 BAMUM LETTER PHASE-C NTEN
Twelve points
✹
- U+2739 ✹ TWELVE POINTED BLACK STAR
See also
Thirteen points
Fourteen points
Fifteen points
Sixteen points
✺
- U+273A ✺ SIXTEEN POINTED ASTERISK
See also
Multiple stars
✨ ⁑ ⁂ ᕯ 𖤉
- U+2728 ✨ SPARKLES (Emoji)
- U+2051 ⁑ TWO ASTERISKS ALIGNED VERTICALLY
- U+2042 ⁂ ASTERISM
- U+156F ᕯ CANADIAN SYLLABICS TTH
- U+16909 𖤉 BAMUM LETTER PHASE-D NDEUX
Notes
- ^ 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]
References
- ^ "ARABIC FIVE POINTED STAR (U+066D) Font Support". fileformat.info.
- ^ "Mathematical operators". Unicode.org.