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✴️Eight-Pointed Star Emoji

The eight-pointed star emoji ✴️ carries the codepoint U+2734 U+FE0F and has been in the standard since Unicode 6.0 (2010). It belongs to Symbols → Other Symbols.

What ✴️ eight-pointed star means

An assortment that ends up doing heavy lifting in lists and checklists. ✅️ and ❌️ mark done and not done, and the Japanese origin shows: ⭕️ and ❌️ follow the maru and batsu convention, where a circle means correct and a cross means wrong, a pairing English marking never uses. 🔰 is Japan's badge for new drivers, and ©️, ®️ and ™️ fuel jokes about ownership.

Unicode tags this one *, eight-pointed and star and files it under Symbols → Other Symbols.

Copy variants

eight-pointed star carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

How ✴️ is built

This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.

✴U+2734eight-pointed star
·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+2734 U+FE0F`
HTML hex	`✴️`
HTML decimal	`✴️`
CSS	`\2734\FE0F`
JavaScript	`\u{2734}\u{FE0F}`
Python	`\U00002734\U0000FE0F`
Java / C#	`\u2734\uFE0F`
Rust	`\u{2734}\u{fe0f}`
Swift	`\u{2734}\u{FE0F}`
PHP	`\u{2734}\u{FE0F}`
URL encoded	`%E2%9C%B4%EF%B8%8F`
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 9C B4 EF B8 8F`
UTF-16 bytes	`2734 FE0F`
Base64	`4py077iP`
Decimal	`10036 65039`
Introduced	Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Keywords

*
eight-pointed
star

Appears in these collections

How to type ✴️

Windows — press Win + . and search “eight-pointed star”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “*”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 2734 and Enter.
HTML — paste ✴️.

How ✴️ renders

The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.

✴️Apple
✴️Segoe
✴️Noto
✴️System

Frequently asked questions

What does the ✴️ eight-pointed star emoji mean?+

✴️ is the eight-pointed star emoji, tagged *, eight-pointed and star. An assortment that ends up doing heavy lifting in lists and checklists. ✅️ and ❌️ mark done and not done, and the Japanese origin shows: ⭕️ and ❌️ follow the maru and batsu convention, where a circle means correct and a cross means wrong, a pairing English marking never uses. 🔰 is Japan's badge for new drivers, and ©️, ®️ and ™️ fuel jokes about ownership.

What is the Unicode code for ✴️?+

eight-pointed star is U+2734 U+FE0F. In HTML that is ✴️, in CSS \2734\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{2734}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the ✴️ emoji added?+

eight-pointed star got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.

Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ✴️ eight-pointed star.