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Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. 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.
This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons. Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art. In recent times, graphical icons, both static and animated, have joined the traditional text-based emoticons; these are commonly known as emoji.
Five-pointed star, a pentagram with internal line segments removed. Lute of Pythagoras, a pentagram-based fractal pattern. Hexagram, a six-pointed star polygon. Heptagram, a seven-pointed star polygon. Octagram, an eight-pointed star polygon. Enneagram, a nine-pointed star polygon. Decagram, a ten-pointed star polygon.
The asterisk (/ ˈ æ s t ər ɪ s k / *), from Late Latin asteriscus, from Ancient Greek ἀστερίσκος, asteriskos, "little star", [1] [2] is a typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a heraldic star.
Five-pointed star. A five-pointed star (☆), geometrically an equilateral concave decagon, is a common ideogram in modern culture. Comparatively rare in classical heraldry, it was notably introduced for the flag of the United States in the Flag Act of 1777 and since has become widely used in flags.
Star of David. Star of Ishtar. Star of Lakshmi. Star of Life. Star polygon. Statue of Hope. Stella d'Italia. Categories: Symbols.
An emoticon (/ əˈmoʊtəkɒn /, ə-MOH-tə-kon, rarely / ɪˈmɒtɪkɒn /, ih-MOTT-ih-kon), [1][2][3][4] short for emotion icon, [5] is a pictorial representation of a facial expression using characters —usually punctuation marks, numbers and letters —to express a person's feelings, mood or reaction, without needing to describe it in detail.
ISBN 9781782434733. Retrieved October 25, 2017 – via Google Books. Hard on the heels of the emoticon comes the Japanese-born emoji, also a DIGITAL icon used to express emotion, but more sophisticated in terms of imagery than those that are created by pressing a colon followed by a parenthesis.