Star emoji

Meaning and uses

The yellow star emoji. It is used for favourites, achievements and praise, and it shows in colour on most phones. For a plain text star that keeps your font colour, use ★ instead.

Unicode details

⭐ is the Unicode character named WHITE MEDIUM STAR, code point U+2B50, in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block. It was added in Unicode 5.1 in 2008, and Unicode classes it as a symbol (general category So).

It is an emoji, listed under the name “star”, so phones and most apps draw it in colour, and each platform has its own design.

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”. 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”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 2b50, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use ⭐. In a CSS content property, use "\2B50".