Star and crescent

Meaning and uses

A crescent moon with a star. It appears on the flags of several countries and is widely associated with Islam.

Unicode details

☪ is the Unicode character named STAR AND CRESCENT, code point U+262A, in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. It was added in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, and Unicode classes it as a symbol (general category So).

It can also appear as an emoji, listed under the name “star and crescent”. Plain text is its default, but some apps draw it in colour anyway. Adding the invisible variation selector U+FE0F after it asks for the emoji style, and U+FE0E asks for plain text.

Tap a code to copy it:

How to type ☪

• On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
• On a phone, it is on the emoji keyboard: search for “star and crescent”. On Windows, press the Windows key and the full stop (Win+.) to open the emoji panel and search there.
• On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “star and crescent”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 262a, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use ☪. In a CSS content property, use "\262A".