Dingbats and signs · U+2605
★Star symbol
A solid star. The outline version ☆ is a separate character.
Looking for the colour emoji instead? ⭐ Star — same idea, drawn as a picture by each platform.
- Unicode
- U+2605
- Alt code
- Alt+9733
- HTML
- ★
- Unicode name
- Black Star
01 — Origin
Where the Star symbol comes from
The filled five-pointed star arrived in Unicode through the same route as the check mark — the Dingbats block, drawn from printers’ ornaments. It is a typographic mark, which is why it has a hollow twin ☆ and no colour of its own.
Ratings, favourites and bios. In a rating row the pair ★★★☆☆ does the job in five characters and survives being copied into a review, a spreadsheet or a plain-text email — the ⭐ emoji does not always.
02 — Codes
Star symbol codes
Four notations, one result: whatever you copy here comes out as U+2605.
03 — How to type
How to type ★ on any keyboard
Keyboard, code, markup or document — the route to U+2605 differs by tool.
04 — Font support
Will ★ actually show up?
We checked 147 fonts installed on a normal machine and counted how many of them contain this character. A symbol missing from a font is drawn as an empty box — the text is still correct, it just cannot be drawn.
Check before you rely on it. Plenty of fonts skip this character. It works in system UI and common documents, but a designed font may not carry it.
05 — Similar
Symbols people confuse with ★
Close enough to be mistaken for it, and still a different code point every time.
06 — Related
Other marks and signs
The rest of the family, one page each — origin, typing routes and font support, across all 6.
07 — Same block
Dingbats and signs
Stars, snowflakes, scissors, checkmarks — the printer’s ornament set.
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