Star Emoji
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What does the Star emoji mean?
1
A bright, five-pointed yellow star widely used to represent a celestial body.
2
A cheerful cartoon star with five rays — rendered in a warm golden tone with a dark outline. Its friendly smile instantly brings to mind the sky and the wider cosmos.
This is the simple way people often draw a star. You can use star emojis in chat or messages to convey the same idea. Figuratively, a star can also mean a celebrity (an actor, singer, athlete, etc.). The yellow star is equally well known as a symbol of Christmas.
Also Known As
- ⭐ Gold Star
Apple Name
- ⭐ Star
Unicode Name
- ⭐ White Medium Star
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Star emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
⭐ Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+2B50
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Emojipedia, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %E2%AD%90 |
| Punycode | xn--f7i |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | E2 AD 90 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \u2B50 |
| C, C++, Python | \u2B50 |
| CSS | \2B50 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{2B50} |
| Perl | \x{2B50} |
| HTML hex | ⭐ |
| HTML dec | ⭐ |