✮
Heavy Outlined Black Star
- Unicode
- U+272E
- Category
- Stars
- 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
- Win + . then search "star" or type 272E followed by Alt+X in Microsoft Word
- 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.
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