✮

Heavy Outlined Black Star

Unicode
U+272E
Category
Stars
Symbol Sets
Star Symbols
HTML Entity
✮
CSS
\272E
The Heavy Outlined Black Star (✮) is a stylized, five-pointed star featuring a solid fill and a distinct, thick outer border. Originating from classic typographic Dingbats, it was added to Unicode 1.1 for decorative printing and typesetting. Today, it is popular in social media bios, aesthetic text formatting, and graphic design to highlight premium ratings or special achievements.

How to Type

Windows
In Word: type 272E, then press Alt + X. Other apps have no standard Windows shortcut for it — copy it from this page
macOS
Control + Command + Space then search "Heavy Outlined Black Star"
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+U 272e Space
HTML
✮

In Programming

While it has no standard function in programming logic, this symbol is frequently used in string literals for command-line interfaces or terminal UIs to display stylized ratings and achievements.

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Tags

achievement star bold bold dingbat star bold star symbol decoration five pointed heavy outline heavy outlined star highlight star premium star text star shape thick border star

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