Star (glyph)

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In typography, a star is any of several glyphs with a number of points arrayed within an imaginary circle.

Three points[]

Name	Character	Code point
Latin capital letter Y	Y	U+0059
N'Ko script Gbakurunen ߷ ("fidget spinner")	߷	U+07F7

Four points[]

Name	Character	Code point
Black four-pointed star	✦	U+2726
White four-pointed star	✧	U+2727
Sparkles (emoji)	✨	U+2728
Latin small letter X	x	U+0078
Latin capital letter X	X	U+0058
multiplication sign	×	U+00D7
Square lozenge	⌑	U+2311
Bamum script (Phase D) shii	WIKI