Black star symbol
U+2605
The standard solid five-pointed star, often used for ratings and highlights. Its outlined partner is ☆.
- Official name
- BLACK STAR
- Unicode block
- Miscellaneous Symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1
- HTML
- HTML hex
- CSS content
- JavaScript
- UTF-8 bytes
- E2 98 85
- Keywords
- sparkle, shine, twinkle, asterisk
- Categories
- Stars & sparkles
The Unicode standard defines this character, but your device’s fonts decide how it looks, so it may differ on other screens.
Related
Data: Unicode 16.0, Emoji 16.0.