U+2606 "☆" White Star Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
☆
U+2606 "☆" White Star is an outlined or hollow representation of a five pointed star, distinct from its filled counterpart the Black Star (U+2605). It is often used in typography and digital text to symbolize excellence, rating systems, or celestial themes, and it appears in various cultural contexts as a decorative or ideological marker. Its design features an open interior which makes it suitable for use in logos, bullet points, or as a placeholder for highlighting important information, while its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures consistent rendering across different platforms and fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2606 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | White Star |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ☆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ☆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x98 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2606 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002606 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2606 |