Copy and Paste Star Symbol, with Asterisks and Star Ratings

How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed by hand. Every character was checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt): the code points and the character names in the notes come from that file, names in sentence case. Block names come from Blocks.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Blocks.txt) and the Unicode version each character arrived in from DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt), both version 18.0.0. Unicode 18.0 names 61 characters with the word star, counted from UnicodeData.txt by the build: 18 in Dingbats, 22 in Geometric Shapes Extended, four half stars (Unicode 11.0) in Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows, and the rest spread over seven more blocks. 33 of them are on this page. Of the other 28, 26 drew as boxes (below), star and crescent is on the moon and star page, and Manichaean punctuation star runs right to left. Other names and uses of a character come from the annotations in NamesList.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt). That is where the second names and glosses in the notes come from: star and five or six spokes for the asterisk, the telephony asterisk, APL on the star operator, the symbol of Morocco line on the outlined white star, starburst, jack and turbofan for three Dingbats, circling stars and squeans for the dizzy symbol, never, was never and will never be for the three logic signs, an aspect of 60 degrees for the sextile, Japanese kome and Urdu paragraph separator for the reference mark, the mistaken asterisk for Canadian syllabics tth, and logogram (star) and classifier (netherworld) for the two hieroglyphs. The names list annotates the star of David with a cross reference only, and this page adds nothing about what it stands for. What black and white mean in a character name is from the Unicode Standard 18.0, chapter 22 (https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode18.0.0/core-spec/chapter-22/, read 2026-09-19): BLACK or WHITE in a name is generally intended to contrast filled versus outline shapes. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers come from emoji-test.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file, in sentence case. Emoji search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml, main branch). That list files star under 15 emoji (three of them singers, which it also files under rockstar), sparkle under five and asterisk under one, eight-spoked asterisk. Eleven of the 15 are on this page, nine as emoji and two in their flat form; man singer, woman singer, star and crescent and meteor (Emoji 18.0) are not. The build stops if any of that changes. Which characters have an emoji form, and the text-style sequences that keep them plain, come from emoji-data.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-data.txt) and emoji-variation-sequences.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt), version 18.0.0. Typing methods. Alt+X: Microsoft Support, Keyboard shortcuts in Word (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/keyboard-shortcuts-in-word-95ef89dd-7142-4b50-afb2-f762f663ceb2, read 2026-09-19): type the character code, then press Alt+X. The Alt+X codes in the notes are the code points from UnicodeData.txt, given for characters up to U+FFFF only. Alt codes: the code page tables published by Unicode (https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/PC/CP437.TXT, https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP1252.TXT and https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MISC/IBMGRAPH.TXT, read 2026-09-19) hold the asterisk at 42 and none of the 61 characters named star, so no number-pad Alt code is given for a star. HTML names: the WHATWG list of named character references (https://html.spec.whatwg.org/entities.json, read 2026-09-19). LaTeX names: the symbol table of the unicode-math package (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/latex3/unicode-math/master/unicode-math-table.tex, read 2026-09-19). The asterism as three asterisks placed in a triangle, named after the astronomical term for a group of stars, and first used as a kind of dinkus: Wikipedia, Asterism (typography) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterism_(typography), wikitext read 2026-09-19). The dinkus as three spaced asterisks in a row that mark a break in a text: Wikipedia, Dinkus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinkus, wikitext read 2026-09-19). Glyphs were drawn with CoreText on macOS on 2026-09-19. Every entry on the page drew there; the 22 stars of Geometric Shapes Extended and the four half stars came out as boxes and were left out, which is why the ratings have no halves. The same drawing showed the star emoji in yellow, and showed that a digit typed after the Arabic five pointed star is displayed before it. Every cluster, face, rating row, wrapper and divider is this site's own assembly, and the tile names are our own. All sources were checked on 2026-09-19. Licence: own work