White Star
Part of Stars & Dingbats
White 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+2606
About this symbol
☆, the white star, is the empty star of rating systems: three stars out of five are written ★★★☆☆. Baedeker’s guidebooks of the nineteenth century gave stars to the sights most worth seeing, and Michelin began giving stars to restaurants in 1926.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- WHITE STAR
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Miscellaneous Symbols
- Unicode group
- Weather and astrological symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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