What 🟒 means
Use Unicode input for its hexadecimal code.
For this Unicode star symbol, Word or Outlook on Windows accepts 1F7D2 followed by AltX. In Linux GTK apps, press CtrlShiftU, type 1f7d2, then press Enter or Space. On macOS, open Character Viewer; Unicode Hex Input supports only four-digit code points, so it cannot enter this one.
As text, its outline comes from the active font, so its appearance can vary by font.
What does this star mean in a message?
Read it as decoration unless the surrounding words say more.
The star comes from the Wingdings/Webdings world of font-based dingbats: ready-made ornaments built into fonts. A 2011 Unicode proposal identifies this shape as w-2239. Unicode added it in 2014 as the light member of a four-character twelve-pointed-star set. The change made a font ornament portable as text.
A typographic ornament with a deliberate, decorative tone.
Part of the collection
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsA visual accent for the adjoining text.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
4Questions people ask
1Why does this star show as a box?
A font is missing its glyph. The character remains in the text, but neither the active font nor a fallback font draws it, so the app may show an empty square or blank space.
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Collections with 🟒
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How to type or find 🟒
- Search it as
- starburst symbol · 12-point star · twelve pointed star · text star symbol · Unicode star symbol · Wingdings star · decorative star symbol
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🟒\1F7D2Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.