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Black Star HTML entity ★
★ is the HTML entity for Black Star ★ (U+2605). Copy the decimal ★ and hex ★ codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
★- Also written
★- Code point
- U+2605
- Unicode name
- BLACK STAR
- Block
- Miscellaneous Symbols
- Category
- Other symbol (So)
- Since
- Unicode 1.1
- Defined in
- HTML5
Codes to copy
| HTML named | ★Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined. | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML decimal | ★Works in HTML and XML. | |
| HTML hex | ★Works in HTML and XML. | |
| CSS | content: "\2605";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u2605"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u2605"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{BLACK STAR}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%98%85Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 98 853 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 26051 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
A filled star for ratings and highlights, paired with the outline star ☆. ★ is an alias.
The name comes from the HTML5 list (much of it shared with MathML), so it works in every current browser but not in XML or XHTML served as XML, where the numeric reference is the safe choice.
More symbols and signs
ⓈCircled Latin Capital Letter S☎Black Telephone␣Open Box♀Female Sign⏧Electrical Intersection♂Male Sign⏢White Trapezium♠Spade Suit
All symbols and signs · Every HTML entity · Encode or decode text
Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).