Star (glyph)
In typography, a star is any of several glyphs with a number of points arrayed within an imaginary circle.
| * ★ ☆ | |
|---|---|
Star in typography |
Three points
| Name | Character | Code point |
|---|---|---|
| Latin capital letter Y | Y | U+0059 |
| N'Ko script Gbakurunen ߷ ("fidget spinner") |
߷ | U+07F7 |
Four points
| Name | Character | Code point |
|---|---|---|
| Black four-pointed star | ✦ | U+2726 |
| White four-pointed star | ✧ | U+2727 |
| Sparkles (emoji) | ✨ | U+2728 |
| Latin small letter X | x | U+0078 |
| Latin capital letter X | X | U+0058 |
| multiplication sign | × | U+00D7 |
| Square lozenge | ⌑ | U+2311 |
| Bamum script (Phase D) shii | 𖥔 | U+16594 |
| plus sign | + | U+002B |
| aboriginal Canadian final plus | ᐩ | U+1429 |
Five points
| Name | Character | Code 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 | 𖤐 | U+16910 |
| low asterisk | ⁎ | U+204E |
| full width asterisk | ＊ | U+FF0A |
See also
Six points
| Name | Character | Code 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
| Name | Character | Code 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 | 𖤓 | U+16913 |
Nine points
Ten points
Twelve points
| Name | Character | Code point |
|---|---|---|
| twelve-pointed black star | ✹ | U+2739 |
See also
Thirteen points
Fourteen points
Fifteen points
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 |
| combining Cyrillic ten millions sign | ꙰ | U+A670 | 8 |
| combining diactral double x below | ᪵ | U+1AB5 | 2 |
| Canadian syllabics tth | ᕯ | U+156F | 2 |
| Tibetan sign rdel nag gsum | ࿏ | U+0FCF | 3 |
| Bamum script (Phase D) ndeux | 𖤉 | U+16909 | 2 |
See also
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.