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Star Symbols
Tap any symbol to copy it. 25 text symbols and 5 emoji.
Text symbols
Emoji
A text symbol takes the colour and size of the text around it. An emoji renders in colour at emoji size and changes the line height of whatever field it sits in. For a name or a bio line, the text symbols above almost always behave better.
People look for these under several names — star symbol, stars copy and paste — and mean the same characters each time. There is no agreed term, because these were never named as a group by anyone.
Where these symbols come from
★ and ☆ were encoded for mathematics and cartography, where a star marks a footnote or a capital city. The ✦ to ✺ run comes from Zapf Dingbats, a 1978 typeface of printers' ornaments that Unicode absorbed wholesale — which is why they vary so much in style.
What people use them for
Stars do two jobs in bios: decoration around a name, and rating displays. The ⋆ and ⭒ variants are the ones used in the aesthetic style popular on TikTok and Instagram, because they are small enough to sit between words without dominating.
How to copy star symbols
- Tap or click the symbol you want. It goes straight to your clipboard — no selecting, no long press.
- Paste it wherever you need it: a bio, a message, a document, a spreadsheet.
- If it arrives in colour when you wanted it plain, you copied from the emoji row. Use the text symbols above instead.
Known problems
Several of these render as colour emoji on some platforms and as plain glyphs on others — ⭐ always, ✨ always, but ★ varies. If consistency matters, stay with ★, ☆ and ⋆.
These are not fonts, they are separate Unicode characters. Screen readers often read them wrong or skip them entirely. What that means.
Common questions
- What is the difference between star symbols and emoji?
- A text symbol takes the colour and size of the text around it, so it sits inside a name or a sentence without changing the line height. An emoji renders in colour at emoji size regardless of the surrounding text. They are different characters, not two versions of one — which is why the two groups above are listed separately.
- How do I copy a symbol on my phone?
- Tap it. Every symbol on this page copies to your clipboard on a single tap, with no selection or long press needed. Nothing is sent anywhere — the copying happens in your browser.
- Why does a symbol show as an empty rectangle?
- The font on that device does not cover the character. There is no fallback: for a reader whose font lacks it, the symbol is simply missing. Older Android builds and minimal desktop setups are where this happens most.