Stars Symbols

Star characters from three points to sixteen, in filled, outlined and shadowed forms, plus pentagrams and compass stars. The staples of ratings and decorative headings.

This group holds 26 characters. They are scattered from U+235F to U+1F52F, 119,249 codepoints apart, because they were added to Unicode at different times and for different reasons. They are drawn from Dingbats (18), Miscellaneous Symbols (3), Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (3), Miscellaneous Technical (1) in the Unicode Standard, which is what decides how each one is encoded and how software sorts and compares it.

Most of the traffic to this group is for ★ and ☆. The phrase people type for the first of those is star emoji, which is worth knowing if you are looking for it under another name.

Most of them, 18 of the 26, come from Dingbats: the printer's ornaments from the classic Zapf Dingbats font. A block is an address rather than a category, and this group is drawn from 5 of them. The rest come from Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows and Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs among others.

None of these is listed here with a Windows Alt code, so copying is the route in this drawer.

Every character below copies with one click. 2 of them have a guide page as well, with the Windows, Mac and HTML route written out.

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