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).
*
★
☆

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
٭
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
gollark: That's insanely stupid. Please don't.
gollark: <@498244879894315027> Context? This sounds like an XY problem.
gollark: ... what?
gollark: Definitely. Not that those are contradictory.
gollark: It's probably best to just write it without much time spent trying to eke out maximum performance.

See also
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.