What 🟋 means
A decorative six-pointed star with no fixed chat meaning.
🟋 is a typographic star, not a symbol with one fixed message in ordinary chat. Its documented typeface lineage begins with Lucida Icons, Arrows, and Stars, designed in 1990 and 1991; the family was reorganized and released as Microsoft Wingdings in 1992. In Wingdings 2, this form was named hexstar3.
These fonts supplied icons for personal-computer interfaces; their stars also served as bullets, asterisks, and ornaments. In a heading or list, 🟋 can mark decoration. Alone in a message, it does not say exactly what the sender means.
How do I type 🟋?
Use Unicode hex input if your app supports it.
As of 2026, Microsoft Word's documented route is to type 1F7CB and press AltX. If text follows the code, select just those six characters first.
An old Wingdings keyboard shortcut depends on that font. Unicode hex input identifies the character independently, but the destination font still draws it.
Why does 🟋 look different?
The font draws the outline, so the shape can vary.
A font with a different star design may make 🟋 look heavier or narrower; a font without support may show a blank or replacement glyph. That changes the display, not the character's identity.
Decorative and typographic; by itself, it is not a reliable reaction.
Six points can suggest a religious symbol; add words when that distinction matters.
Part of the collection
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsA decorative heading marker.
Don't confuse it with
3
Related characters
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hexstar1; 🟋 corresponds to hexstar3. They are separate, related forms.
Combination ideas
3Questions people ask
1Why does 🟋 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 🟋
- Also called
- hexstar3
- Search it as
- Wingdings · Wingdings 2 · six-pointed star · black six-pointed star · six-pointed star character · decorative asterisk · font symbol
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🟋\1F7CB1F7CB, then press AltX; select only the code if text follows it.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.