What 🟇 means
No fixed meaning; it is an ornament. Its four arms are each offset to one side, so the star seems to spin like a paper pinwheel, a sharper cousin of the plain four-pointed star . In a list it acts as a bullet; around a name or a title it is decoration, read much like a sparkle.
It came to Unicode in 2014 as part of the Geometric Shapes Extended block, which collected the arrows, circles and stars of Wingdings and Webdings, the picture fonts bundled with Windows since the 1990s. In those fonts each picture was secretly an ordinary letter, which reappeared whenever the font was missing; a Unicode code of its own lets the shape travel as real text.
Neutral and decorative; it adds a bit of polish, not a set emotion or message.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
3Questions people ask
1Why do I see an empty box instead of the star?
Your font lacks it. Support for this rare character varies, so some phones and apps show a box or blank; the text itself is fine.
More like this
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✯Pinwheel Star
✦Black Four Pointed Star
✧White Four Pointed Star
✨Sparkles
❃Heavy Teardrop-Spoked Pinwheel Asterisk
✤Heavy Four Balloon-Spoked Asterisk
🟅Medium Four Pointed Black Star
🟆Four Pointed Black Star
🟈Reverse Light Four Pointed Pinwheel Star
¦Broken Bar
°Degree Sign
■Black Square
□White Square
▢White Square With Rounded CornersHow to type or find 🟇
- Also called
- pinwheel star · four-pointed pinwheel star
- Search it as
- four pointed star · decorative star · star bullet · Wingdings star · U+1F7C7
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🟇\1F7C7Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.