★
Unicode symbols
U+2605
The ★ black star works as a cleaner visual mark for featured labels, favorites, rating text than a full emoji treatment.
✫
Open Centre Black Star
U+272B
✫
For stylized titles, rankings, premium labels, the ✫ open centre black star gives a text-first look that stays more neutral than emoji presentation.
It often appears in bios, headings, profile text, and labels where stylized titles, rankings, premium labels need a cleaner symbol than emoji usually provide.
How people use this symbol
The ✫ open centre black star is commonly copied for profiles, captions, UI labels, notes, and short-form text where people want more control than emoji styling usually gives them.
It fits especially well in plain text layouts because the character is lightweight, easy to paste, and usually easier to align with surrounding words than a colorful emoji glyph.
Similar symbols
☆
Unicode symbols
U+2606
The ☆ white star sits in the useful middle ground between plain punctuation and emoji, especially for wishlists, aesthetic layouts, soft decoration.
✦
Unicode symbols
U+2726
The ✦ black four pointed star works as a cleaner visual mark for stylized headings, aesthetic bios, decorative separators than a full emoji treatment.
✧
Unicode symbols
U+2727
The ✧ white four pointed star works as a cleaner visual mark for soft decorative text, minimal profile styling, cute separators than a full emoji treatment.
✩
Unicode symbols
U+2729
The ✩ stress outlined white star works as a cleaner visual mark for playful decoration, list highlights, fan edits than a full emoji treatment.
✪
Unicode symbols
U+272A
The ✪ circled white star sits in the useful middle ground between plain punctuation and emoji, especially for badges, featured blocks, attention markers.
Related emoji
🤩
smileys & emotion
star-struck
affectionate
The 🤩 Star-struck emoji usually conveys being dazzled, impressed, or completely wowed by someone or something.
Often used for excited messages and nearby reactions.
excitedeyesface
⭐️
travel & places
star
weather
The ⭐️ Star emoji usually points to imagery that captures weather, climate, sky conditions, or the atmosphere of a moment.
Often used for astronomy messages and nearby reactions.
astronomymediumstars
🌟
travel & places
glowing star
weather
If you are wondering what does 🌟 mean, this emoji is most often understood as a symbol that captures weather, climate, sky conditions, or the atmosphere of a moment.
Often used for glittery messages and nearby reactions.
glitteryglowglowing
Symbol details
- Category
- Unicode Symbols
- Unicode
- U+272B
- HTML
- ✫
- ASCII
- No