Star symbol to copy and paste

What is the star symbol?

Stars you can type are letters of Unicode. ★ and ☆, the black and the white star, have been in it since 1993, and its block of dingbats holds dozens more, from the pinwheel ✯ to the twelve-pointed ✹. Pasted, they take the font and the color of the text around them. The yellow ⭐, the glowing 🌟 and the sparkles ✨ are emoji instead, which every phone paints in its own way.

Over 100 stars are gathered here, each named: plain ones for text, emoji, aesthetic and cute combos for a bio, moons, the twelve star signs, ratings and the stars of faiths. The die above them puts a star in stardust, wings, moons or a frame from the 2000s, and it can make over 1,000 combos.

How to copy and paste a star

1. Look through the kinds below, or type what you need into the search: moon, shooting, five stars, Leo.
2. Tap the star. It is on your clipboard at once, and a pill on the screen says which one.
3. Paste it wherever you type: an Instagram or TikTok bio, a Discord name, a text, a review.

What the stars mean

• Star ⭐: well done, a favorite, the gold star a teacher gives.
• Glowing star 🌟: someone who shines, or great news.
• Sparkles ✨: something new, pretty or magic; around a word, ✨like this✨, it is said with flair, and often with irony.
• Dizzy star 💫: dazzled, starstruck, or truly dizzy.
• Shooting star 🌠: a wish, or something rare that passes quickly.
• Star-struck 🤩: amazed by someone or something.
• Outline star ☆: a soft, cute decoration; in a rating, a star not given.
• Five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐: the best a review can say.
• Star of David ✡: the six-pointed star of Judaism, on the flag of Israel.
• Star and crescent ☪: a symbol of Islam, on the flags of Turkey and Pakistan among others.
• Pentagram ⛤: a star drawn in one line, a sign of protection in Wicca; upside down, ⛧, it is linked with Satanism.

How to type a star on a keyboard

• Windows: the Windows key with a period opens the emoji panel, ⭐ and 🌟 among them. In Word, type 2605 and press Alt and X for ★, or 2606 for ☆.
• Mac: press Control, Command and Space for the Character Viewer, and search it for star.
• iPhone and Android: ⭐ 🌟 ✨ are on the emoji keyboard; a plain ★ or ☆ is quickest copied from here, or saved as a text replacement.
• Every keyboard has the asterisk *, the star of the typewriter: Shift and 8.
• In HTML, ★ is ★ and ☆ is ☆.

Aesthetic and cute stars

In a bio a star seldom stands alone. Dust and tiny stars make it aesthetic, ⋆｡°✩ or ✩₊˚.⋆; wings and brackets make it cute, ꒰☆꒱ or ʚ★ɞ. A star with its trail, ★彡, comes from Japanese emoticons, and ★·.·´¯`·.·★ from the MySpace and MSN names of the 2000s. For whole names in sparkles, see our aesthetic fonts; for hearts to put beside a star, the heart symbols; for faces that throw stars, (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧, the kaomoji.

Star signs and their symbols

Each of the twelve signs of the zodiac has a symbol of its own, from ♈︎ for Aries to ♓︎ for Pisces, drawn from old astrological shorthand: the ram’s horns, the bull’s head, the lion’s mane. Phones show them as emoji in purple squares; the ones on this page ask for the plain symbol in the color of your text, where a phone lets them.

Where the star symbol comes from

The star is among the oldest signs people wrote. In the cuneiform of Mesopotamia, five thousand years ago, an eight-pointed star meant both sky and god. The six-pointed star became the emblem of the Jewish community of Prague in the 14th century and of the Zionist flag in 1897; the star and crescent was the Ottomans’ before it stood for Islam; and the star became a mark of quality, from a teacher’s gold star to the Michelin stars given since 1926.

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