An eight-pointed star with a solid, filled body rather than thin spokes, officially the Eight Pointed Black Star in Unicode, points tapering to sharp tips. Where ✳️ eight-spoked asterisk reads as a flat, ornamental marker, this one reads as an actual star, reached for night skies and shine over decoration or bullet points.
What ✴️ means
A white star with eight points pasted onto a square orange background. The ✴️ Eight-Pointed Star emoji represents a 'star-shaped' bullet point. It could even indicate that the pointers are more important than the ones preceded by ✳️ Eight-Spoked Asterisk.
How and when to use it
- Also known as the 'Star of Ishtar', ✴️ symbolizes Innana, the Sumerian goddess. Based on the fact that this star was also called the 'Star of Venus', you may welcome this emoji while referring either to Venus or femininity (a, because it's a goddess, and b, it's Venus).
- The eight-pointed star also has numerous religious and spiritual implications. If you're using such references in any context, use ✴️.
- While stating the highlights of a given post or repost, ✴️ may be of use. This applies even while making useful and important pointers via text.
Other Names
- ✴️ Star of Ishtar
- ✴️ Eight-Pointed Star Bullet
- ✴️ Octagram
- ✴️ Star of Venus
- ✴️ Orange Star
- ✴️ Star Shaped Asterisk
- ✴️ Star Shaped Bullet Point
The lowdown
- Category
- Symbols › other-symbol
- Codepoints
U+2734 U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:eight_pointed_black_star:GitHub- Keywords
- *, eight-pointed, star
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — ✴️ Eight-pointed Star or 🥞 Pancakes?