This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+2B50 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The CLDR project calls this character “star” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: astronomy, medium, stars, white.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Variation Selector-15: ⭐︎ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
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
11088
UTF-8
E2 AD 90
UTF-16
2B 50
UTF-32
00 00 2B 50
URL-Quoted
%E2%AD%90
HTML hex reference
⭐
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
â
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
81 38 AC 32
RFC 5137
\u'2B50'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u2B50
C and C++
\u2B50
C#
\u2B50
CSS
\002B50
Excel
=UNICHAR(11088)
Go
\u2B50
JavaScript
\u2B50
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{2b50}
JSON
\u2B50
Java
\u2B50
Lua
\u{2B50}
Matlab
char(11088)
Perl
"\x{2B50}"
PHP
\u{2b50}
PostgreSQL
U&'\2B50'
PowerShell
`u{2B50}
Python
\u2B50
Ruby
\u{2b50}
Rust
\u{2b50}
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