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 Microsoft

Category Symbols

Subcategory other-symbol

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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