Star (glyph)

"★" redirects here. For the David Bowie album stylized as such, see Blackstar (album).

"✭" redirects here. For the use of this symbol as a sports logo, see Dallas Cowboys § Logo.

"❂" redirects here. For the similar symbol, see Blue Sky with a White Sun.

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

See also: Five-pointed star

 ⃰ ≛ ⋆ ⍟ ⍣ ★ ☆ ☪ ⚝ ⛤ ⛥ ⛦ ⛧ ✩ ✪ ✫ ✬ ✭ ✮ ✯ ✰ ⭐ ⭑ ⭒ 🌟 🌠 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

• Mullet (heraldry)

Six points

Name	Character	Code point	Notes
asterisk operator	∗	U+2217	May be used for the telephone star key.[2]
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
full width asterisk	＊	U+FF0A
Six spoke asterisk, various weights	🞵🞶🞷 🞸🞹🞺	U+1F7B5 to U+1F7BA
Star of Life		(none)

See also

• Seal of Solomon
• Hexagram

Seven points

• Commonwealth Star
• Heptagram

Eight points

Name	Character	Code point
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

Nine points

Name	Character	Code point
nine pointed white star (Baháʼí star)	🟙	U+1F7D9

See also

• Enneagram

Ten points

• Decagram

Eleven points

Name	Character	Code point
Bamum script (Phase C) nten		U+168D4

• Hendecagram

Twelve points

Name	Character	Code point
twelve-pointed black star	✹	U+2739

See also

• Blue Sky with a White Sun
• Dodecagram

Thirteen points

• Tridecagram

Fourteen points

• Tetradecagram

Fifteen points

• Pentadecagram

Sixteen points

Name	Character	Code point
sixteen pointed asterisk	✺	U+273A

See also

• Hexadecagram

Multiple stars

Name	Character	Code point	# of Stars
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

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]