⭐ Star
Emoji Meaning
A classic, five-point gold star.
Commonly used for various metaphorical senses of star (e.g., for fame, success, excellence, reviews). Also used for emphasis or flair. Occasionally used for astronomical stars.
Not to be confused with 💫 Dizzy, 🌟 Glowing Star, 🌠 Shooting Star, or ✨ Sparkles, though their applications may overlap.
Samsung and Facebook’s stars were once silver.
See the glossary for the term white in Unicode character names.
Star was approved as part of Unicode 5.1 in 2008 under the name “White Medium Star” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
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Also Known As
- ⭐ Gold Star
Apple Name
⭐ Star
Unicode Name
⭐ White Medium Star
Codepoints
Shortcodes
- :star: (Discord, GitHub, Slack, Emojipedia)
See also
- ☄️ Comet
- 🌙 Crescent Moon
- 💫 Dizzy
- 👽 Alien
- 🌓 First Quarter Moon
- 🌛 First Quarter Moon Face
- 🇧🇩 Flag: Bangladesh
- 🇧🇦 Flag: Bosnia & Herzegovina
- 🇧🇷 Flag: Brazil
- 🇧🇫 Flag: Burkina Faso
- 🇨🇲 Flag: Cameroon
- 🇨🇫 Flag: Central African Republic
- 🇨🇩 Flag: Congo - Kinshasa
- 🌕 Full Moon
- 🌝 Full Moon Face
- 🌟 Glowing Star
- 🤩 Star-Struck
- 🌗 Last Quarter Moon
- 🌜 Last Quarter Moon Face
- 🪄 Magic Wand
- 🍁 Maple Leaf
- 🌌 Milky Way
- 🌑 New Moon
- 🌃 Night with Stars
- 🪐 Ringed Planet
- 🌠 Shooting Star
- 🔯 Dotted Six-Pointed Star
- ✨ Sparkles
- ☪️ Star and Crescent
- ✡️ Star of David
- 🌞 Sun with Face
- 🌘 Waning Crescent Moon
- 🌖 Waning Gibbous Moon
- 🌒 Waxing Crescent Moon
- 🌔 Waxing Gibbous Moon
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