✩
Stress Outlined White Star
- Unicode
- U+2729
- Category
- Stars
- Symbol Sets
- Symbols for Nicknames Star Symbols
- HTML Entity
- ✩
- CSS
- \2729
The Stress Outlined White Star (✩) is a decorative five-pointed star symbol featuring a distinct, hollowed-out design. Originally introduced in the Unicode Dingbats block for typesetting and printing, it is traditionally used to add emphasis or create stylized bullet points. Today, it is highly popular across social media platforms for formatting aesthetic bios, embellishing usernames, or highlighting special text.
How to Type
- Windows
- In Word: type 2729, then press Alt + X. Other apps have no standard Windows shortcut for it — copy it from this page
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search 'star'
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2729
- HTML
- ✩ or ✩
In Programming
While not a standard programming operator, this symbol is frequently used in technical documentation as a stylized bullet point or printed in terminal interfaces to highlight success messages.
Tags
bullet point star
decoration
dingbat star
empty star
five pointed
hollow star
outlined five-pointed star
outlined star
rating star
star outline
star shape
stress
text decoration