58 stars & sparkles characters for ratings, sparkles and decoration. Tap any character to copy it — including the plain-text versions that survive any font.
Tap or click a character and it goes straight to your clipboard. These are Unicode text characters, not images, so they paste into any text field.
Stars split into two jobs. The plain outlined and solid stars are rating marks — a review, a rank, a menu highlight. The four-pointed sparkles are pure decoration, and they are the single most used symbol in aesthetic usernames because a short row of them reads as design rather than punctuation.
There are 58 characters in this set. The grid above is the fastest way to take one — tap it and it is on your clipboard. The table below gives the official Unicode name of each character, which is the name used by every database, font tool and search box.
| Symbol | Unicode name | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| ★ | Black Star | the solid five-point star; reads as a rating or a hard separator |
| ☆ | White Star | the outlined star; lighter and more decorative than ★ |
| ✦ | Black Four Pointed Star | the single most used sparkle in aesthetic names |
| ✧ | White Four Pointed Star | pairs with ✦ for alternating rows |
| ✩ | Stress Outlined White Star | a soft star that sits between ★ and ☆ in weight |
| ✪ | Circled White Star | |
| ✫ | Open Centre Black Star | |
| ✬ | Black Centre White Star | |
| ✭ | Outlined Black Star | |
| ✮ | Heavy Outlined Black Star | |
| ✯ | Pinwheel Star | |
| ✰ | Shadowed White Star | a glowing star used for emphasis |
| ⭐ | White Medium Star | the full-colour star; unambiguous on every platform |
| 🌟 | Glowing Star | a star with rays, used for achievements |
| ✨ | Sparkles | the most used decoration emoji on the internet |
| ⋆ | Star Operator | a small, tidy star that sits well inline |
| ✷ | Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black Star | |
| ✸ | Heavy Eight Pointed Rectilinear Black Star | |
| ✹ | Twelve Pointed Black Star | |
| ✿ | Black Florette | the most used flower symbol in soft and aesthetic bios |
| ❀ | White Florette | the outlined version of the same flower |
| ❁ | Eight Petalled Outlined Black Florette | a fuller flower for decorative rows |
| ❃ | Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Pinwheel Asterisk | |
| ❋ | Heavy Eight Teardrop-Spoked Propeller Asterisk | a rounded asterisk used as a divider |
| ✾ | Six Petalled Black And White Florette | |
| ✽ | Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk | |
| ❊ | Eight Teardrop-Spoked Propeller Asterisk | |
| ⁎ | Low Asterisk | |
| ⁑ | Two Asterisks Aligned Vertically | |
| ⊛ | Circled Asterisk Operator | |
| ≛ | Star Equals | |
| ∗ | Asterisk Operator | |
| ❂ | Circled Open Centre Eight Pointed Star | |
| ❄ | Snowflake | |
| ❅ | Tight Trifoliate Snowflake | |
| ❆ | Heavy Chevron Snowflake | |
| ✡ | Star Of David | |
| ☪ | Star And Crescent | |
| ✢ | Four Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk | |
| ✴ | Eight Pointed Black Star | |
| ❈ | Heavy Sparkle | |
| ✥ | Four Club-Spoked Asterisk | |
| ❉ | Balloon-Spoked Asterisk | |
| ✣ | Four Balloon-Spoked Asterisk | |
| ✤ | Heavy Four Balloon-Spoked Asterisk | |
| ✱ | Heavy Asterisk | |
| ✲ | Open Centre Asterisk | |
| ✳ | Eight Spoked Asterisk | |
| ✵ | Eight Pointed Pinwheel Star | |
| ✶ | Six Pointed Black Star | |
| ✺ | Sixteen Pointed Asterisk | |
| ✻ | Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk | |
| ✼ | Open Centre Teardrop-Spoked Asterisk | |
| ❇ | Sparkle | |
| ＊ | Fullwidth Asterisk | |
| ﹡ | Small Asterisk | |
| ⍣ | Apl Functional Symbol Star Diaeresis | |
| ⍟ | Apl Functional Symbol Circle Star |
Every character on this page is a button, and the steps are identical on a phone, a tablet and a desktop:
Nothing is installed and nothing is uploaded. These are standard Unicode characters, so the device you are already holding knows how to draw them.
Ordinary text is safe everywhere. The problems start with two groups: characters that need a font the receiving device may not ship with, and applications that deliberately filter what you can type.
| Place | Works? | What to expect |
|---|---|---|
| Instagram, TikTok, X bio and captions | Yes | Symbols and emoji both display; a handful of rare glyphs may render as a box on older Android versions |
| Discord display name and messages | Yes | Almost everything works, including the rarer box-drawing characters |
| WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal | Yes | Full support for emoji and symbols |
| Word, Google Docs, Excel, Sheets | Yes | Fine on a desktop; fonts on older Office installs may miss the newest glyphs |
| Most online games (usernames) | Sometimes | Many titles strip anything outside their font. Test with one symbol first |
| SMS | Yes, but | An emoji can push a message into a longer billing segment |
The practical rule: if you are decorating a bio or a document, paste freely. If you are building a username that has to survive a game login screen, start with one character, confirm it appears, then add the rest.