Last June, a comment on Hacker News complained that Unicode lacked the half-star character used in ratings and movie reviews: Until Unicode has a half-star character, it won't even be able to encode the average newspaper. From the ancient times it was a symbol of celestial … White Star. 0 (June, 1993) Encodings HTML Entity … Show More. The four-pointed icon is also believed to be a designation of the trail, goal, and great endeavours, because it seems to point to the four cardinal directions. It represents a five-pointed star, often associated with the night sky, and can be used to express admiration for someone's achievement or brilliance. Type two or more words to narrow down result. Encoding takes symbol from table, and tells font what should be painted. Tibetan Mark Gter Yig Mgo undefined-Um Gter Tsheg Ma. The ordering of the emoji and the annotations are based on Unicode CLDR data.