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⭐️Star Emoji
⭐️ star — U+2B50 U+FE0F, added in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode groups it with the other 47 weather emojis under Travel & Places.
What ⭐️ star means
Weather doubles as mood throughout. 🔥 long ago stopped meaning fire and now means excellent; 🌊 and ⚡ intensify rather than describe; 🌈 reads as LGBTQ+ pride at least as often as weather. Unicode encodes all eight lunar phases as separate characters, plus four moons with faces, and 🌚 is used mainly for deadpan mischief.
Unicode tags this one astronomy, medium and stars and files it under Travel & Places → Weather.
Copy variants
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+2B50star
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+2B50 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | ⭐️ | |
| HTML decimal | ⭐️ | |
| CSS | \2B50\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{2B50}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U00002B50\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \u2B50\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{2b50}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{2B50}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{2B50}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %E2%AD%90%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 AD 90 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | 2B50 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 4q2Q77iP | |
| Decimal | 11088 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type ⭐️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “star”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “astronomy”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type2b50and 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 ⭐️ star emoji mean?+
⭐️ is the star emoji, tagged astronomy, medium and stars. Weather doubles as mood throughout. 🔥 long ago stopped meaning fire and now means excellent; 🌊 and ⚡ intensify rather than describe; 🌈 reads as LGBTQ+ pride at least as often as weather. Unicode encodes all eight lunar phases as separate characters, plus four moons with faces, and 🌚 is used mainly for deadpan mischief.
What is the Unicode code for ⭐️?+
star is U+2B50 U+FE0F. In HTML that is ⭐️, in CSS \2B50\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{2B50}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the ⭐️ emoji added?+
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.
Related emojis
More emojis from Weather in Travel & Places.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ⭐️ star.