Star
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- Shortcode
:star:- Unicode
U+2B50- HTML
⭐- CSS
\2B50- JavaScript
"\u{2B50}"- URL
%E2%AD%90
What ⭐ means
A yellow star. It means praise, a favorite or a top rating.
As a gold star it praises a job well done, and in rows like ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ it gives a rating or marks a favorite. It also says 'you're a star' to someone who helped. Fans use it for celebrities and the stars of a show.
Facts
Star ⭐ is an emoji in the travel and places category, under sky weather. 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 :star:. People also look for it with words like “astronomy”, “medium”, “stars”, or “white”.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2020
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.