✶

See also: *

✶ U+2736, ✶ SIX POINTED BLACK STAR ← ✵ [U+2735] Dingbats ✷ → [U+2737]

🞵 U+1F7B5, 🞵 LIGHT SIX SPOKED ASTERISK ← 🞴 [U+1F7B4] Geometric Shapes Extended 🞶 → [U+1F7B6]

🞶 U+1F7B6, 🞶 MEDIUM SIX SPOKED ASTERISK ← 🞵 [U+1F7B5] Geometric Shapes Extended 🞷 → [U+1F7B7]

🞷 U+1F7B7, 🞷 BOLD SIX SPOKED ASTERISK ← 🞶 [U+1F7B6] Geometric Shapes Extended 🞸 → [U+1F7B8]

✷ U+2737, ✷ EIGHT POINTED RECTILINEAR BLACK STAR ← ✶ [U+2736] Dingbats ✸ → [U+2738]

Translingual

Symbol

✶

1. (astronomy) a star (also ＊, ⚹ or ∗)
   • 1803, Robert Patterson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, volume 40 (in English), Princeton University Press, published 2013, page 72:

     ☉ or ✶'s app[arent] alt[itude]

   Note: there is no dedicated Unicode character for the astronomical symbol for a star. Publishers make different choices.