Star Symbols Copy and Paste
Copy star symbols for ratings, favorites, profile names, dividers, and decorative text. Use simple stars like ★ and ☆ when the meaning matters, or sparkle marks like ✦, ✧, and ✨ when the style matters more.
Favorites
No favorites yet. Click the star in the selected character panel to save one.
About star symbols
Rating stars
Use ★ and ☆ for rating rows, review mockups, favorites, and checklist-style labels. They stay readable even when the surrounding font changes.
Sparkles and decorative stars
Use ✦, ✧, ✩, ✪, and ✨ for usernames, bios, captions, and separators. These are more visual, so test them in the app where they will appear.
Asterisks that look intentional
Symbols like ✱, ✳, and ✴ work well as bullets or divider marks when a plain * looks too much like Markdown, a footnote, or code.
Text star or emoji star
✨ often renders like a colorful emoji, while ★ and ☆ usually render as text. For rating interfaces or dense tables, start with the plain stars.
Unicode, HTML entities, and Alt codes
Unicode gives each character a standard code point, such as U+2605 for ★. HTML character references let web pages represent those characters with decimal, hexadecimal, or named references.
Alt codes are keyboard shortcuts, mostly used on Windows. They are useful when they work, but copy and paste is more reliable across laptops, phones, tablets, and international keyboard layouts.
Why special characters change appearance
The copied character is text, not an image. Its final look depends on the app, browser, operating system, and font used to render it. If a symbol matters in a username, label, document, or product page, paste it into the final destination and check it there.