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Star Symbols

Star and sparkle characters from Miscellaneous Symbols, Dingbats and Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows. Includes filled and outlined five-point stars, four-, six-, eight- and twelve-point stars, pinwheel and circled stars, sparkles, and heavy asterisks.

Text stars like ★ and ☆ are monochrome and inherit your font colour, which makes them perfect for ratings and highlights. ⭐ and ✨ are emoji and render in colour.

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All stars & sparkles symbols

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What star symbols are used for

  • Star ratings (★★★★☆)
  • Highlighting favourites and featured items
  • Social media bios and usernames
  • Bullet points and dividers (✦ ✧)
  • Christmas, night-sky and celebration themes

Star Symbols: Unicode, hex, octal & HTML codes

Codes for every symbol in Stars & Sparkles
SymbolNameUnicodeHexOctalHTML
Black starU+26050x26050o23005★
White starU+26060x26060o23006☆
Black four pointed starU+27260x27260o23446✦
White four pointed starU+27270x27270o23447✧
Stress outlined starU+27290x27290o23451✩
Circled white starU+272A0x272A0o23452✪
Open centre starU+272B0x272B0o23453✫
Black centre starU+272C0x272C0o23454✬
Outlined starU+272D0x272D0o23455✭
Heavy outlined starU+272E0x272E0o23456✮
Pinwheel starU+272F0x272F0o23457✯
Shadowed white starU+27300x27300o23460✰
Glowing starU+2B500x2B500o25520⭐
Sparkle starU+1F31F0x1F31F0o371437🌟
SparklesU+27280x27280o23450✨
Heavy eight petalled floretU+274B0x274B0o23513❋
Eight petalled floretU+274A0x274A0o23512❊
Eight spoked asteriskU+27330x27330o23463✳
Eight pointed starU+27340x27340o23464✴
SparkleU+27470x27470o23507❇
Six pointed pinwheel starU+27350x27350o23465✵
Six pointed black starU+27360x27360o23466✶
Eight pointed rectilinear starU+27370x27370o23467✷
Heavy eight pointed starU+27380x27380o23470✸
Twelve pointed black starU+27390x27390o23471✹
SnowflakeU+27440x27440o23504❄
Tight snowflakeU+27450x27450o23505❅
Heavy chevron snowflakeU+27460x27460o23506❆
AsterismU+20420x20420o20102⁂
SunU+26000x26000o23000☀

Frequently asked questions

How do I copy star symbols?

Click any symbol on this page to copy it to your clipboard, then paste it anywhere: documents, email, social media, code or chat. Every character here is standard Unicode, so it works across Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and Linux.

How many star symbols are on this page?

This collection contains 30 characters. Each one links to a detail page with its Unicode code point, decimal, hexadecimal and octal values, HTML entity, CSS escape, and JavaScript, Python and Java escape sequences.

How do I make a 5 star rating in text?

Combine the black star ★ (U+2605, ★) and white star ☆ (U+2606, ☆): ★★★★☆ for four out of five. Both are in the same font, so they line up exactly.

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