☆ Edit Meaning

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A white star. Represented in Unicode as WHITE STAR U+2606

JIS X 0213: 1-1-89

Character entity reference: ☆

It is a special character which can sometimes be found in Japanesemedia. An example of this would be the mangaらき☆すた (and the animeof the same name).

One reason for its appearance in Japanese media maybe be that it is readily available in Microsoft IME for Japanese. It can be accessed simply by typing "hosi" or "hoshi" (星) which is Japanese for star.

In Japanese it is often called 白星 (shiroboshi) which literally means "white star".

Related characters include ★, ※, ＊ and *.

『らき☆すた』とは美水かがみの4コマ漫画及びそれを原作としたゲーム・アニメ作品である。

See *, white star, star, hoshi, unicode