Star (glyph)

In typography, a star is any of several glyphs with a number of points arrayed within an imaginary circle.

"★" redirects here. For the David Bowie album stylized as such, see Blackstar (album).
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Three points
See also: Triskelion
NameCharacterCode point
Latin capital letter Y YU+0059
N'Ko script Gbakurunen ߷
("fidget spinner")		 ߷߷U+07F7

Four points
NameCharacterCode point
black four-pointed star ✦U+2726
white four-pointed star ✧U+2727
sparkles (emoji) ✨U+2728
Latin small letter X xU+0078
Latin capital letter X XU+0058
multiplication sign ×U+00D7
square lozenge ⌑U+2311
Bamum script (Phase D) shii 𖥔U+16594
plus sign +U+002B
aboriginal Canadian final plus ᐩU+1429
swastika 卐U+5350

Five points
See also: Five-pointed star
NameCharacterCode point
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 𖤐U+16910
low asterisk ⁎U+204E
full width asterisk ＊U+FF0A

See also

Six points
NameCharacterCode point
asterisk operator ∗U+2217
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 (proprietary, but some
fonts display it at U+2695)

See also

Seven points

Eight points
NameCharacterCode point
Arabic star (5, 6 or 8 points) ٭U+066D
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flower punctuation 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 𖤓U+16913

Nine points

Ten points

Eleven points
NameCharacterCode point
Bamum script (Phase C) nten 𖣔U+168D4

Twelve points
NameCharacterCode point
twelve-pointed black star ✹U+2739

See also

Thirteen points

Fourteen points

Fifteen points

Sixteen points
NameCharacterCode point
sixteen pointed asterisk ✺U+2739

See also

Multiple stars
NameCharacterCode point# of Stars
sparkles (emoji) ✨U+27283 (18 including background stars)
two asterisks aligned vertically ⁑U+20512
asterism ⁂U+20423
combining Cyrillic ten millions sign ꙰U+A6708
combining diactral double x below ᪵U+1AB52
canadian syllabics tth ᕯU+156F2
tibetan sign rdel nag gsum ࿏U+0FCF3
Bamum script (Phase D) ndeux 𖤉U+169092

See also
  • Combining Cyrillic Millions
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