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Star in typography

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

NameCharacterCode point
Black four-pointed star ✦U+2726
White four-pointed star ✧U+2727
Sparkles (emoji) ✨U+2728
Square lozenge ("pillow") ⌑U+2311
Bamum script (Phase D) shii 𖥔U+16954

Five points

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
Arabic five-pointed star[lower-alpha 1] ٭U+066D

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

See also

Seven points

Eight points

NameCharacterCode point
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 𒀭U+1202D
rub-el-hizb ۞U+06DE
Bamum script (Phase D) ngkyee 𖤓U+16913

Nine points

NameCharacterCode point
nine pointed white star (Baháʼí star) 🟙U+1F7D9

See also

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+273A

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
Canadian syllabics tth ᕯU+156F2
Bamum script (Phase D) ndeux 𖤉U+169092

Notes

  1. ↑ 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

  1. ↑ "ARABIC FIVE POINTED STAR (U+066D) Font Support". fileformat.info.

See also

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