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+272B 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
10027
UTF-8
E2 9C AB
UTF-16
27 2B
UTF-32
00 00 27 2B
URL-Quoted
%E2%9C%AB
HTML hex reference
✫
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
✫
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
81 37 C0 31
LATEX
\ding{75}
RFC 5137
\u'272B'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u272B
C and C++
\u272B
C#
\u272B
CSS
\00272B
Excel
=UNICHAR(10027)
Go
\u272B
JavaScript
\u272B
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{272b}
JSON
\u272B
Java
\u272B
Lua
\u{272B}
Matlab
char(10027)
Perl
"\x{272B}"
PHP
\u{272b}
PostgreSQL
U&'\272B'
PowerShell
`u{272B}
Python
\u272B
Ruby
\u{272b}
Rust
\u{272b}
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