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U+2B50 · WHITE MEDIUM STAR

Star

  • CodepointU+2B50
  • NameWHITE MEDIUM STAR
  • Emoji namestar
  • Decimal11088
  • BlockMiscellaneous Symbols and Arrows (U+2B00–U+2BFF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version5.1 (2008)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthW — Wide
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2B50 (⭐) is WHITE MEDIUM STAR, a symbol in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 5.1 (2008).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “star”, in the Travel & Places group, subgroup sky & weather. It displays as a colour emoji by default.

Its East Asian Width is Wide, so terminals and monospaced layouts give it two columns.

How to type ⭐

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 AD 903 bytes
UTF-162B501 code unit
UTF-3200002B504 bytes
HTML decimal⭐
HTML hex⭐
CSS\2B50in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2B50
JSON\u2B50
Python\u2B50
Python\N{WHITE MEDIUM STAR}by name
Java / C#\u2B50
C / C++\u2B50universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2B50}
Go\u2B50
Ruby\u2B50
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(11088)
URL-encoded%E2%AD%90percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows

All in block →
U+2B4A⭊Leftwards Arrow Above Almost Equal to U+2B4B⭋Leftwards Arrow Above Reverse Tilde Operator U+2B4C⭌Rightwards Arrow Above Reverse Tilde Operator U+2B4D⭍Downwards Triangle-Headed Zigzag Arrow U+2B4E⭎Short Slanted North Arrow U+2B4F⭏Short Backslanted South Arrow U+2B51⭑Black Small Star U+2B52⭒White Small Star U+2B53⭓Black Right-Pointing Pentagon U+2B54⭔White Right-Pointing Pentagon U+2B55⭕Hollow Red Circle U+2B56⭖Heavy Oval with Oval Inside