Symbols · Emoji 0.6
✴️Eight-pointed Star Emoji
Generally, the ✴️ emoji means something is pretty, shiny, or special. People use it to add a bit of sparkle to their messages, like emphasizing something positive.
The ✴️ emoji is an eight-pointed star.
- Unicode
- U+2734 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :eight_
pointed_ black_ star: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the ✴️ Eight-pointed Star emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 2 of them.
02 — Platforms
Eight-pointed Star emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+2734 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your eight-pointed star looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Eight-pointed Star emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :eight_pointed_black_star:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+2734.
04 — How to type
How to type the ✴️ Eight-pointed Star emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Eight-pointed Star emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Eight-pointed Star emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around eight-pointed star for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What ✴️ means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
08 — Around the world
What ✴️ means in other countries
A plain decorative star used to add emphasis, closer to a written asterisk than any specific symbol.
Marks emphasis or a “new” tag, similar to how an asterisk flags a footnote.
Common as a highlight marker in casual text, borrowed from print typography.
Used purely to add visual flair to a message with no fixed reading behind it.
Before you send it: Use it anywhere you’d reach for an asterisk to add emphasis; it carries no cultural baggage.
09 — Apps
What ✴️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+2734, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
10 — Related
Emojis similar to the Eight-pointed Star emoji
Same family (other-symbol) — often confused with eight-pointed star or used alongside it.
Symbols →
Splatter
〽️Part Alternation Mark
🔱Trident Emblem
⚜️Fleur-de-lis
🔰Japanese Symbol For Beginner
♻️Recycling Symbol
✅Check Mark Button
❇️Sparkle
✳️Eight-spoked Asterisk
Collections ✴️ belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:
11 — Difference
✴️ vs ✳️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Eight-pointed Star
Code: U+2734 U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :eight_pointed_black_star:
Generally, the ✴️ emoji means something is pretty, shiny, or special.
Unicode name: Eight-spoked Asterisk
Code: U+2733 U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :eight_spoked_asterisk:
Generally, the ✳️ emoji just means a decorative asterisk or a small star.
12 — History
Where the ✴️ Eight-pointed Star emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+2734 U+FE0F never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
✴️ existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E6F8, KDDI au E479, SoftBank E205.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Eight-pointed Star was approved as U+2734 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so ✴️ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
13 — FAQ