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:eight_pointed_black_star::eight_pointed_star:U+2734✴\2734"\u{2734}"%E2%9C%B4%EF%B8%8FAn eight-pointed star, usually orange and sometimes set inside an orange box. It is decorative more than meaningful: a bullet, a highlight or a starburst.
People use ✴️ to mark special offers, to separate sections in posts, or as a small star in bios. It reads warmer than ✳️ and less magical than ✨.
Eight-pointed star ✴️ is an emoji in the symbols category, under other symbol. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :eight_pointed_black_star: or :eight_pointed_star:. People also look for it with words like “*”, “eight-pointed”, or “star”.
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