Star (glyph)

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In typography, a star is any of a number of glyphs with a number of triangular points arrayed within an imaginary circle.

Contents 1 Four points 2 Five points 2.1 Notes 2.2 See also 3 Six points 4 Eight points 5 Twelve points 6 Special characters 7 See also

[edit] Four points

Name	Character	Codepoint
black four-pointed star	✦	U+2726
white four-pointed star	✧	U+2727

[edit] Five points

Name	Character	Codepoint
Arabic "five-pointed" star (see below)	٭	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 crescent	☪	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

[edit] Notes

Arabic "five-pointed" star 

Reputedly, some Arabs have seen some kind of Zionist conspiracy in the six-lobed asterisk glyph of many traditional fonts, hence the insistence on a non-sixfold asterisk. NB: this glyph is not actually five-pointed in some fonts.

• Unicode font above, default font below

[edit] See also

• mullet (heraldry)
• pentagram

[edit] Six points

Name	Character	Codepoint
star of David	✡	U+2721
six-pointed black star	✶	U+2736

See also:

• Seal of Solomon

[edit] 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

[edit] Twelve points

Name	Character	Codepoint
twelve-pointed black star	✹	U+2739

[edit] Special characters

[edit] See also

• Unicode symbols