Star in Wingdings
The Wingdings star is the « key (★), the Star of David is Y (✡), and the biggest star collection lives in Wingdings 2. Every one of them is below — click to copy as Unicode.
Wingdings 1 Stars
The classic set: the five-pointed ★ on «, the Star of David on Y, the star and crescent on Z, plus circled, shadowed and pinwheel stars on the accented keys.
Wingdings 2: The Full Star Collection
Wingdings 2 is the star library: 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 12-pointed stars in light, medium, heavy and pinwheel variants. Perfect for ratings, decorative bullets and burst graphics.
Using Wingdings Stars
Stars in Word work like all Wingdings symbols: type the key, select it, switch the font — or copy the Unicode version above and paste anywhere. A classic trick is rating rows: paste ★★★★☆ using the solid and outline stars. For a full rating-plus-text mockup, convert a row of « characters on the main translator.
Related guides: checkmarks, hearts, arrows and the complete alphabet chart.
Where do Wingdings stars come from? The original 1990 set drew its ornaments from Lucida Stars, one of the Bigelow & Holmes collections Microsoft licensed, which is why Wingdings is unusually rich in star shapes for a system font. Designers of the era used them as decorative bullets, footnote markers and rating glyphs long before emoji existed, and the tradition stuck: you can still find ★ buried in professional Word templates today. One caution for writers: stars in Wingdings are pure decoration — unlike checkmarks, they carry no agreed yes/no meaning, so a message full of stars decodes to "attention" or "highlight" at best. For unambiguous marks, use the check and cross keys instead.
Frequently Asked Questions
▸Which key is a star in Wingdings?
In Wingdings 1, the « key (ALT+0171) produces a solid five-pointed star ★, and Y gives the Star of David ✡. Wingdings 2 goes further: its accented keys å through õ form a complete star collection — three, four, five, six, eight and twelve pointed stars, light and heavy.
▸How do I type ★ in Word?
Type « (or ALT+0171), select it, and set the font to Wingdings. Or copy ★ from the chart above — it's a Unicode character that works in every app with no font change.
▸What is the Star of David key in Wingdings?
Capital Y in the Wingdings font. It maps to U+2721 STAR OF DAVID, one of several religious and cultural symbols the original font placed on uppercase letters (Z, for example, gives the star and crescent).
▸Which font has the most stars?
Wingdings 2, by far. While Wingdings 1 has a handful, Wingdings 2 dedicates most of its accented-character range to stars of every point count and weight — from tiny three-pointed accents to heavy twelve-pointed bursts, ideal for decorative documents and ratings.