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Glyph for U+2605
Source: Noto Sans Symbols2

U+2605 Black Star

U+2605 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+2600 to U+26FF Miscellaneous Symbols in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Ambiguous East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+2605 behaves as Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

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

Representations

System Representation
Nº 9733
UTF-8 E2 98 85
UTF-16 26 05
UTF-32 00 00 26 05
URL-Quoted %E2%98%85
HTML hex reference ★
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ★
HTML named entity ★
HTML named entity ★
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) A1 DA
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) A1 FA
LATEX \ding{72}
Adobe Glyph List blackstar
digraph *2

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name BLACK STAR
Unicode 1 Name —
Block Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
General Category Other Symbol
Script Common
Bidirectional Category Other Neutral
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+2605 Black Star
Lowercase ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+2605 Black Star
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+2605 Black Star
Uppercase ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+2605 Black Star
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+2605 Black Star
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+2605 Black Star
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+2605 Black Star
Case Folding Glyph for U+2605 Black Star
ASCII Hex Digit ✘
Alphabetic ✘
Bidi Control ✘
Bidi Mirrored ✘
Composition Exclusion ✘
Case Ignorable ✘
Changes When Casefolded ✘
Changes When Casemapped ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded ✘
Changes When Lowercased ✘
Changes When Titlecased ✘
Changes When Uppercased ✘
Cased ✘
Full Composition Exclusion ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point ✘
Dash ✘
Deprecated ✘
Diacritic ✘
Emoji Modifier Base ✘
Emoji Component ✘
Emoji Modifier ✘
Emoji Presentation ✘
Emoji ✘
Extender ✘
Extended Pictographic ✔
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+2605 Black Star
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base ✔
Grapheme Extend ✘
Grapheme Link ✘
Hex Digit ✘
Hyphen ✘
ID Continue ✘
ID Start ✘
IDS Binary Operator ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and ✘
Ideographic ✘
Indic Mantra Category —
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name —
Join Control ✘
Logical Order Exception ✘
Math ✔
Noncharacter Code Point ✘
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+2605 Black Star
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point ✘
Other Grapheme Extend ✘
Other ID Continue ✘
Other ID Start ✘
Other Lowercase ✘
Other Math ✔
Other Uppercase ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark ✘
Pattern Syntax ✔
Pattern White Space ✘
Quotation Mark ✘
Regional Indicator ✘
Radical ✘
Sentence Break Other
Soft Dotted ✘
Sentence Terminal ✘
Terminal Punctuation ✘
Unified Ideograph ✘
Variation Selector ✘
Word Break Other
White Space ✘
XID Continue ✘
XID Start ✘
Expands On NFC ✘
Expands On NFD ✘
Expands On NFKC ✘
Expands On NFKD ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+2605 Black Star
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Ambiguous
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment —
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic)
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+2605 Black Star
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation U

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