White Medium Star
Part of Stars & Dingbats
White Medium Star has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ⭐
- Unicode
- U+2B50
About this symbol
⭐, the white medium star, joined Unicode in 2008 and became the usual star emoji. Twitter used a star for its favourites button until 2015, when it switched to a heart, and GitHub still lets people star projects they like.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- WHITE MEDIUM STAR
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows
- Unicode group
- Stars
- Added in
- Unicode 5.1 (2008)
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