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Star (glyph)
In typography, a star is any of a number of glyphs with a number of triangular points arrayed within an imaginary circle.
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Four points
| name | character | codepoint |
|---|---|---|
| black four-pointed star | ✦ | U+2726 |
| white four-pointed star | ✧ | U+2727 |
Five points
| name | character | codepoint |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic five-pointed star (not five pointed in some fonts!) | ٭ | U+066D |
| 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 crecent | ☪ | U+262A |
| 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 |
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Six points
| name | character | codepoint |
|---|---|---|
| star of David | ✡ | U+2721 |
| six-pointed black star | ✶ | U+2736 |
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Eight points
| name | character | codepoint |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Twelve points
| name | character | codepoint |
|---|---|---|
| twelve-pointed black star | ✹ | U+2739 |
Last updated: 05-06-2005 19:04:50
10-26-2009 08:16:03
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