White Medium Star

Group: Stars

Keywords

stars

About this character

White Medium Star belongs to the Stars group and is encoded at U+2B50. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+2B50
Hex: 2B50
Decimal: 11088
HTML: ⭐
CSS: \2B50
JavaScript: \u2B50
Python: \u2B50
UTF-8: E2 AD 90

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Star Of David U+2721 Similar
Black Four Pointed Star U+2726 Similar
White Four Pointed Star U+2727 Similar
Circled White Star U+272A Similar
Open Centre Black Star U+272B Similar
Black Centre White Star U+272C Similar
Outlined Black Star U+272D Similar
Heavy Outlined Black Star U+272E Similar
Pinwheel Star U+272F Similar
Shadowed White Star U+2730 Similar
Heavy Asterisk U+2731 Similar
Open Centre Asterisk U+2732 Similar
Eight Spoked Asterisk U+2733 Similar
Eight Pointed Black Star U+2734 Similar
Eight Pointed Pinwheel Star U+2735 Similar
Six Pointed Black Star U+2736 Similar
Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black Star U+2737 Similar
Heavy Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black Star U+2738 Similar
Twelve Pointed Black Star U+2739 Similar
Sixteen Pointed Asterisk U+273A Similar
Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk U+273B Similar
Open Centre Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk U+273C Similar
Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk U+273D Similar
Six Petalled Black And White Florette U+273E Similar

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.