Black Four Pointed Star
U+2726✦Symbol · decimal ✦
Sparkle Symbols Copy & Paste
Copy and paste 73 sparkle symbols in one click. The Dingbats block supplies most of them. 60 render as text and 13 as emoji.
Copy sparkle symbols
73 characters and sequences. Choose an entry and it copies straight away.
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Sparkle Symbols with Unicode names and HTML codes
Here are 12 representative rows out of 73. Read the name before the shape. Each row also carries the hexadecimal and decimal HTML reference for the exact sequence.
Modifier Letter Plus Sign
U+02D6˖Symbol · decimal ˖
Hyphenation Point + Subscript Plus Sign + Ring Above
U+2027 U+208A U+02DA‧ ₊ ˚Text sequence · decimal ‧ ₊ ˚
Outlined Black Star
U+272D✭Symbol · decimal ✭
Two Asterisks Aligned Vertically
U+2051⁑Punctuation · decimal ⁑
Eight Spoked Asterisk
U+2733✳Emoji or pictograph · decimal ✳
Twelve Pointed Black Star
U+2739✹Symbol · decimal ✹
White Florette
U+2740❀Symbol · decimal ❀
Balloon-Spoked Asterisk
U+2749❉Symbol · decimal ❉
Canadian Syllabics Tth
U+156FᕯLetter · decimal ᕯ
Star
U+2B50⭐Emoji or pictograph · decimal ⭐
Outlined White Star
U+269D⚝Symbol · decimal ⚝
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Sparkle Symbols: types, meanings and practical differences
Sparkles are lightweight emphasis marks that pair naturally with stars, hearts and aesthetic dividers.
These are the marks people reach for every day. They work almost anywhere. That amounts to 73 copyable values here — 67 of them one character long, 6 longer.
Names such as Black Four Pointed Star, Modifier Letter Plus Sign, Hyphenation Point + Subscript Plus Sign + Ring Above, Outlined Black Star appear here, and counting every entry puts Ring Above (5), Star Operator (3), Hyphenation Point (3) at the top. Single-character values span U+02D6 to U+1F52F.
Browse sparkle symbols by type
Symbol
48 entries
Emoji or pictograph
13 entries
Text sequence
6 entries
Combining mark
2 entries
Punctuation
3 entries
Letter
1 entry
What is actually in these sparkle symbols
Where sparkle symbols sit in the code space
Counted across U+02D6 to U+1F52F, the general-category split is symbol 61, punctuation 3, combining mark 2, letter 1.
How the official names cluster
Counted across the stored entries, the commonest name patterns are Ring Above (5), Star Operator (3), Hyphenation Point (3).
Sequence construction
Of the sequences, 0 rely on a zero-width joiner and 0 on a variation selector; 6 code points is the longest single entry.
Narrowing it down
Watch out for Outlined Black Star next to Outlined White Star. They are different characters: U+272D and U+269D. Symbol is the safe default at 48 entries.
Save letter for when you mean exactly that. Want colour? Pick one of the 13 emoji.
Want it to match your text? Pick one of the 60 plain ones. Test the result in the real app before you use it.
Sparkles emphasize novelty, cleanliness or a magical tone. Several entries are stars by Unicode name, while others are emoji designed specifically as sparkles.
48Symbol
Monochrome characters you can style like text. 66% here.
13Emoji or pictograph
Rendered in colour by Apple, Google or Microsoft. 18% here.
6Text sequence
Several characters copied in a fixed order. 8% here.
3Punctuation
Punctuation, where small differences matter. 4% here.
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Sparkle Symbols explained in plain English
Short summary
Pick from 73 sparkle symbols on this page. 48 of them are symbol. They come mostly from one part of Unicode: Dingbats. 60 are plain text. The other 13 are emoji, so your phone or computer draws them in colour.
How the 6 groups divide
Expect symbol, emoji or pictograph and text sequence. 48 sit under symbol.
Encoding, and why coverage varies
They come from Dingbats (43), Spacing Modifier Letters (6) and General Punctuation (6). Across U+02D6 to U+1F52F, support gets patchy at the newer end.
The pair people mix up
Compare Outlined Black Star with Outlined White Star. Same shape, different code point.
6 entries are sequences
Half-copying breaks 6 of these. Take the whole value.
Terms worth knowing
These words describe the shapes, uses and character families you will meet in this collection.
- Symbol
- Emoji or pictograph
- Text sequence
- Combining mark
- Punctuation
- Letter
- Sparkle
- Glitter
- Twinkle
- Aesthetic
- Four
- Pointed
A quick choice checklist
- Match the meaning. Start with symbol when that group fits your message.
- Read the name. Compare Black Four Pointed Star with Modifier Letter Plus Sign before you pick by shape.
- Test the result. Paste the full value into the app, document, or profile where it will appear.
Sparkles range from single stars to multi-character accents
Some entries are individual four-point stars, some are emoji, and others are complete decorative sequences with spacing and combining marks.
| Type | Examples | Copy behavior |
|---|---|---|
| Text sparkle | ✦ ✧ | Usually inherits text color and font weight. |
| Sparkles emoji | ✨ | Uses platform artwork and may occupy emoji line height. |
| Small celestial marks | ⋆ ˚｡ | Punctuation and symbols can shift vertically between fonts. |
| Aesthetic sequence | ⁺‧₊˚ or ༘⋆ | Copy the entire sequence and test mobile wrapping. |
Practical note: Use one sparkle family consistently. Long repeated clusters can become noisy when read aloud and can obscure the words people need to search.
Related reading
Compare these choices with star symbols and aesthetic symbols. For a deeper explanation, read Star Symbol Meanings: Ratings, Favorites and Decoration. For a quick answer first, see can i change the color of a unicode symbol?.
Tip: Pair anything decorative with real text. That is what search engines index and what screen readers announce.
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How to use sparkle symbols
Copying stores text, so the value survives the clipboard intact. Paste it with Ctrl V, ⌘ V or your device's Paste command.
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Profile names and short captions
Start with Black Four Pointed Star. It works nearly everywhere.
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Lists, labels and status notes
When handling lists, labels and status notes, the 48 symbol entries are the obvious pool, and let visual weight settle the final choice.
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Cards, invitations and informal messages
When creating cards, invitations and informal messages, paste the complete entry — several of these are multi-code-point sequences that break if truncated.
Copy-ready sparkle symbols examples for profile names and short captions
Profile names and short captions
✦ Sparkle referenceLists, labels and status notes
✦ ✧ ✨Cards, invitations and informal messages
✨ sparkle ✦05
How to type these sparkle symbols directly
Copying is quicker, but these are typeable too. On Windows the alt code is the character's decimal code point; in Word the hexadecimal followed by Alt X does the same job without a keypad.
| Character | Name | Windows | Hex | HTML |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ✦ | Black Four Pointed Star | Alt 10022 | 2726 | ✦ |
| ˖ | Modifier Letter Plus Sign | Alt 726 | 02D6 | ˖ |
| ✭ | Outlined Black Star | Alt 10029 | 272D | ✭ |
| ⁑ | Two Asterisks Aligned Vertically | Alt 8273 | 2051 | ⁑ |
| ✳ | Eight Spoked Asterisk | Alt 10035 | 2733 | ✳ |
| ✹ | Twelve Pointed Black Star | Alt 10041 | 2739 | ✹ |
Two limits apply to alt codes: a physical keypad, and a ceiling at U+FFFF. 5 entries here sit above that ceiling. A further 6 are sequences, which no shortcut reproduces — copy those instead. For the Windows, macOS, Linux and mobile detail, read the keyboard guide.
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How sparkle symbols render across fonts, apps and devices
Unicode keeps 78% of these in Dingbats. The rest come from Spacing Modifier Letters and General Punctuation. 60 act like letters.
They take the colour of the text around them. The other 13 are emoji. Your phone or computer paints those in colour.
Unicode files the emoji ones under Travel & Places and Activities. 6 are built from more than one character. Copy the whole thing, or it breaks apart.
Some are as recent as Emoji 0.6, so old devices may draw an empty box.
A pasted entry is redrawn by the receiving application's font. Expect small differences in width and weight across devices, and larger ones where a font lacks the character entirely.
67Single characters
6Sequences
13Emoji properties
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Common mistakes with sparkle symbols
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Mixing up Black Four Pointed Star and Modifier Letter Plus Sign.
- 2
Thinking every one of the 73 works the same everywhere.
- 3
Copying only part of one of the 6 multi-code-point sequences instead of the whole value.
- 4
Reaching for one of the 13 emoji entries where a text mark was needed, so the colour artwork clashes with the surrounding type.
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Sparkle Symbols questions and answers
What is the difference between Outlined Black Star and Outlined White Star?+
Different code points, similar shapes. Outlined Black Star sits at U+272D and Outlined White Star at U+269D, so search, sorting and screen readers treat them as unrelated characters even where they look the same.
What is the HTML code for black four pointed star?+
Write ✦ (hex) or ✦ (decimal) to get ✦. Numeric references sidestep encoding problems in older toolchains.
Which sparkle symbols work as plain text rather than emoji?+
60 of the 73 are ordinary text characters. They take the colour and weight of the surrounding font, which suits documents, code and interface labels. The other 13 are emoji and arrive as colour artwork you cannot restyle.
Why does one of these sparkle symbols split apart when I paste it?+
6 entries here are sequences of more than one code point. If the destination does not support the sequence, or if the copy was truncated, the parts render individually. Copy the entry with the button rather than by selecting the characters.
Which Unicode block are these sparkle symbols in?+
Chiefly Dingbats, which accounts for 43; the rest come from Spacing Modifier Letters and General Punctuation. That matters because a font either supports a block broadly or barely at all.
Will these sparkle symbols work on older phones?+
The newest entry on this page was introduced in Emoji 0.6. Devices that have not received a font update since then will show a blank rectangle instead. Test on a real older device before using a recent character where the meaning matters.
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Learn more about sparkle symbols
Tools that pair with sparkle symbols
Popular marks usually end up beside a name or a short label, so the text converters are the tools that pair with them.
Bubble Text ConverterTurn ordinary letters and numbers into enclosed Unicode characters for short labels and profile text.Open the text converter →Upside-Down Text ConverterReverse and substitute letters to make playful upside-down text, then test the result in its final app.Open the text converter →
Composing a finished design from these is what the Symbol Maker is for. The full set of converters, inspectors and previews sits in the Unicode tools hub.
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Sources for these figures
All counts derive from the 73 values actually stored for this collection. Rather than curating names by hand, this page reads them from the Unicode 17.0 database, and takes emoji membership from the standard's own data files.
- Unicode Character Database — UnicodeData.txt (formal names and general categories)
- Unicode emoji-test.txt (fully-qualified emoji sequences and grouping)
- The Unicode Standard, current version
- How CoolSymbol.now sources, counts and tests this data