This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+2726 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
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. A commonly used star symbol is the asterisk.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
10022
UTF-8
E2 9C A6
UTF-16
27 26
UTF-32
00 00 27 26
URL-Quoted
%E2%9C%A6
HTML hex reference
✦
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
✦
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
81 37 BF 36
LATEX
\ding{70}
RFC 5137
\u'2726'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u2726
C and C++
\u2726
C#
\u2726
CSS
\002726
Excel
=UNICHAR(10022)
Go
\u2726
JavaScript
\u2726
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{2726}
JSON
\u2726
Java
\u2726
Lua
\u{2726}
Matlab
char(10022)
Perl
"\x{2726}"
PHP
\u{2726}
PostgreSQL
U&'\2726'
PowerShell
`u{2726}
Python
\u2726
Ruby
\u{2726}
Rust
\u{2726}
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