Star symbol ★ copy and paste

• Solid and outline: ★ ☆ ⭑ ⭒ ✩ ✭ ✰
• Four-pointed and sparkles: ✦ ✧ ✨ ⋆
• Many-pointed: ✴ ✶ ✷ ✸ ✹ ✺ ❂ ❉ ❊ ❋
• Emoji: ⭐ 🌟 💫 🌠 🌌
• Special: ✡ Star of David, ☪ star and crescent, ⁂ asterism, * asterisk

Stars are the classic way to show ratings in reviews, résumés and spreadsheets: ★★★★☆ means 4 out of 5. Use the solid star ★ (U+2605) for filled and the outline star ☆ (U+2606) for empty, since they come from the same font and line up neatly. In Excel or Google Sheets, =REPT("★",4)&REPT("☆",1) builds a rating from a number.

There are no classic Windows Alt codes for these stars, so copying is the easiest way. On a Mac, open the Character Viewer with Control + Command + Space and search for "star".

Use ✦ or ✧ as elegant bullets, ✨ to add sparkle to social posts, ★ for ratings, and ⋆ as a subtle divider in bios ("coffee ⋆ books ⋆ travel"). For other decorative symbols, see the heart symbols or all symbols.

Click a symbol on this page and it's copied to your clipboard right away. Then:

• Windows: click where you want it and press Ctrl + V.
• Mac: press Cmd + V.
• iPhone and Android: tap and hold in the text field, then tap Paste.

The panel that opens after a click also lets you copy the HTML code instead, or add the symbol to the Your text box at the bottom so you can combine several symbols and words and copy them all at once. Symbols you've used recently appear at the top of the page, stored only in your browser.

Text stars (★ ☆ ✦ ✧ ✩ ✪) take on the color and style of the surrounding text, so they match your font and work in black-and-white documents. Emoji stars (⭐ 🌟 ✨ 💫 🌠) are colorful pictures that look a bit different on every phone and computer. For ratings and lists, text stars line up better; for messages and social posts, emoji add more personality.