Eight-pointed star Emoji

Symbols

An eight-pointed star featuring sharp, angular spikes that meet at a central point. It appears as a classic burst or flare, often rendered in orange or yellow on most platforms.

Usage Context

This icon serves as an emphatic highlighter for important information or a way to denote 'special' content. It functions as a digital version of an asterisk or a flare, frequently used to mark items in a list as notable or to add visual flair to a message alongside ✨ or 🌟.

History

Adopted into the Unicode standard in 1993, this character was originally included to provide a graphical equivalent to the heavy-duty asterisks found in early typesetting and manual typewriter layouts. It gained widespread popularity as a way to flag priority items in text-heavy early internet messaging boards.

Details

Glyph

✴

Unicode

U+2734

Shortcode

:emoji_u2734:

HTML Entity

✴

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Symbols

Subcategory other-symbol

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

Apache 2.0 SIL OFL 1.1 Noto Repository