In typography, a star is any of a number of glyphs with a number of triangular points arrayed within an imaginary circle.
Four points
| name | character | codepoint
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| black four-pointed star | ✦ | U+2726
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| white four-pointed star | ✧ | U+2727
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Five points
| name | character | codepoint
|
Arabic five-pointed star
(not five pointed in some fonts!) |
٭ | U+066D
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| star equals | ≛ | U+225B
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| star operator | ⋆ | U+22C6
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| APL functional symbol circle star | ⍟ | U+235F
|
| APL functional symbol star diaeresis |
⍣ | U+2363
|
| black star | ★ | U+2605
|
| white star | ☆ | U+2606
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| star and crecent | ☪ | U+262A
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| stress outlined white star | ✩ | U+2729
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| circled white star | ✪ | U+272A
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| open center black star | ✫ | U+272B
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| black center white star | ✬ | U+272C
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| outlined black star | ✭ | U+272D
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| heavy outlined black star | ✮ | U+272E
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| pinwheel star | ✯ | U+272F
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| shadowed white star | ✰ | U+2730
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See also:
Six points
| name | character | codepoint
|
| star of David | ✡ | U+2721
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| six-pointed black star | ✶ | U+2736
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See also:
Eight points
| name | character | codepoint
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| eight-pointed black star | ✴ | U+2734
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| eight-pointed pinwheel star | ✵ | U+2735
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| eight-pointed rectilinear black star | ✷ | U+2737
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| heavy eight-pointed rectilinear black star | ✸ | U+2738
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| circled open center eight-pointed star | ❂ | U+2742
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Twelve points
| name | character | codepoint
|
| twelve-pointed black star | ✹ | U+2739
|
Last updated: 05-06-2005 19:04:50
