U+2730 "✰" Shadowed White Star Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
✰
U+2730 "✰" Shadowed White Star is a typographic symbol that features a five pointed white star with a subtle drop shadow or darker outline effect, giving it a three dimensional or embossed appearance. It belongs to the Dingbats block in Unicode, which includes a variety of decorative and ornamental characters often used for visual emphasis, ratings, or aesthetic purposes in digital text. Unlike the simpler and more common white star U+2606 ☆, the shadowed variant conveys a slightly more textured or highlighted quality, making it suitable for use in titles, bullet points, or as a rating icon where a sense of depth or enhanced visual distinction is desired.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2730 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Shadowed White Star |
| Block | Dingbats |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ✰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ✰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x9C 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2730 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002730 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2730 |
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 |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |