U+1F7CE "🟎" Medium Eight Pointed Black Star Unicode Character

U+1F7CE "🟎" Medium Eight Pointed Black Star is a geometric symbol that represents a four-pointed star shape with intermediate points, creating a total of eight distinct rays, and it is rendered in a solid black fill as part of the Unicode Geometric Shapes Extended block. This character was introduced in Unicode version 7.0 in 2014 and is typically used in decorative or symbolic contexts, such as in visual lists, maps, or as an emphasis marker in textual art, often to denote a notable point or achievement without carrying a specific religious or cultural connotation. Its medium size distinguishes it from larger or smaller star variants in the same set, providing a balanced visual weight for use in digital text and graphical interfaces.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F7CE
Version Added	7.0
Name	Medium Eight Pointed Black Star
Block	Geometric Shapes Extended
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	🟎
HTML Hex Encoding	🟎
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9F 0x9F 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDFCE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F7CE
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udfce

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other