Solid star
★
U+2605. Heavy and bright. As eyes it is excitement; as an ornament it is closer to a badge.
★ and ☆ as eyes and ornaments
Star Kaomoji
Star kaomoji come down to one choice made twice: solid or hollow, and eyes or ornament. A solid ★ is loud and excited; a hollow ☆ is lighter, closer to wonder. Put them in the eyes and the face is starstruck; put them outside and the face is simply decorated.
(★ω★)
Quick answer
Which one should you use?
(★ω★) is the standard star kaomoji, meaning starstruck or thrilled. Solid ★ is excitement and hollow ☆ is wonder, so (☆ω☆) is the dreamier of the pair. Adding 彡 after a star, as in ☆彡, makes it a shooting star — the kana is a motion trail borrowed from manga.
Copy and paste
20 star kaomoji
Every face is plain text. Tap one to copy it, then paste it wherever you are typing — it travels as ordinary characters, not as an image.
(★ω★)
Star eyes
The standard. Thrilled, starstruck, delighted.
(☆ᴗ☆)
Hollow star eyes
Lighter than ★. Wonder, where the solid star is excitement.
(★‿★)
Star smile
Solid stars above a plain curved mouth.
☆(◕‿◕)☆
Star framed
Stars outside the brackets as ornaments.
(☆▽☆)
Delighted stars
An open triangle mouth under hollow stars.
★(◡‿◡)★
Solid star frame
Heavier framing than the hollow version.
(*★ω★*)
Blushing stars
Stars and blush marks together.
(☆∀☆)
Excited stars
The ∀ mouth shows teeth under hollow stars.
(ﾉ★ω★)ﾉ
Throwing stars
Both arms raised with starstruck eyes.
(★ ᴗ ★)ﾉ
Waving stars
One raised hand; wider spacing keeps it calm.
☆*:.｡.(◕‿◕).｡.:*☆
Full star frame
The most decorated face here.
(☆ω☆)
Wonderstruck
The dreamiest of the star faces.
(★ᵕ★)
Sweet stars
A small closed mouth between two solid stars.
☆彡(◡‿◡)
Shooting star
彡 is a motion trail, so the star is falling.
(◕‿◕)☆彡
Shooting star aside
The trail leads away from the face.
(★ ˘ ω ˘ ★)
Sleepy stars
Stars outside closed eyes.
☆(´ᵕ`)☆
Simple star frame
The most restrained framed face.
(☆_☆)
Blank star stare
An underscore mouth. Stunned, not delighted.
(★∀★)
Grinning stars
The loudest face on this page.
(◕ᴗ◕)★
Star aside
One star on the message, none on the face.
How they are built
The parts these faces are made of
Kaomoji are assembled rather than drawn. Once you can see the components, you can adjust any face on this page instead of hunting for a different one.
Hollow star
☆
U+2606. Lighter and softer. The better choice for wonder, dreaminess and anything understated.
Motion trail
彡
A kana used as speed lines. Placed after a star it becomes a shooting star; placed after anything it implies movement.
Frames
☆*:.｡. .｡.:*☆
Stars with dot-and-colon trails between them. Symmetrical framing that suggests a whole sky, not one ornament.
Before you paste
Getting them to arrive intact
Paste as plain text
Markdown and rich-text editors treat backslashes, underscores and asterisks as formatting. Star frames use both asterisks and full stops, which makes them among the more fragile faces here.
The underscore is the risk
(☆_☆) contains an underscore, and Markdown reads a pair of them as italics. If the mouth disappears and the following text slants, replace it with (☆ᴗ☆).
Stars are text, not emoji
★ and ☆ are Miscellaneous Symbols characters and take the colour of the surrounding text. ⭐ is an emoji with fixed colour artwork, so it will never blend into the face the way ★ does.
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Faces with a full write-up
Some of these have their own page covering where the face came from and how its meaning has shifted.
Questions
Star Kaomoji FAQ
What is the star kaomoji?
(★ω★) is the standard, meaning starstruck, thrilled or dazzled by something. The hollow version (☆ω☆) is the same face in a softer register: wonder instead of excitement.
What is the difference between ★ and ☆?
★ is U+2605, the solid star, and ☆ is U+2606, the hollow one. Both are ordinary text symbols rather than emoji. Solid reads as loud and excited; hollow reads as light and dreamy, so the same face changes register entirely depending on which you pick.
How do you make a shooting star in text?
Put 彡 straight after the star: ☆彡. The kana is used in manga as speed lines, so it turns a static star into a falling one. It works after other characters too, and always implies motion in the direction it points.
Are star kaomoji the same as the star emoji?
No. ★ and ☆ are plain text characters that take the colour of the text around them, which is why they sit inside a kaomoji without clashing. ⭐ is an emoji with its own yellow artwork drawn separately by each platform, so it always looks like an object placed beside the face.
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