✫
Open Centre Black Star
- Unicode
- U+272B
- Category
- Stars
- Symbol Sets
- Star Symbols
- HTML Entity
- ✫
- CSS
- \272B
The Open Centre Black Star (✫) is a typographic symbol featuring a solid five-pointed star with a hollow pentagonal center. Originating from the standard Unicode Dingbats block, it was historically used by printers for decorative bullet points and page borders. Today, it frequently appears in social media bios, aesthetic text dividers, and digital art to add a stylish, vintage celestial flair.
How to Type
- Windows
- In Word: type 272B, then press Alt + X. Other apps have no standard Windows shortcut for it — copy it from this page
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search 'open centre black star'
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 272b then Enter
- HTML
- ✫
In Programming
While rarely used in mathematical formulas, developers occasionally utilize this symbol within string literals as a decorative bullet point or to create eye-catching console menus.
Tags
aesthetic bullet
celestial star text
decoration
five pointed
hollow five-pointed star
hollow star
hollow star symbol
open center
ornament
star shape
star with hole
vintage star