Dotted Six-pointed Star Emoji

The dotted six-pointed star (🔯) is a hexagram with a dot in the middle. Unicode calls it Six Pointed Star with Middle Dot, a deliberately neutral name that sidesteps a centuries-old overlap: the same shape appears in Judaism (as the Star of David, ✡️), in Hinduism (as the Shatkona inside yantras and the Anahata heart chakra), in Islamic mysticism (as the Seal of Solomon), and in Western occultism (as a talismanic sign for the seven classical planets). The dot at the center is what sets 🔯 apart from ✡️. In Hindu interpretation it's the bindu, the non-dual point of origin from which the two interlocking triangles (Shiva and Shakti, upward and downward) emerge. In Kabbalistic magic the center dot marks the heart of the talisman. Unicode didn't want to pick a tradition, so the name stayed generic and the emoji ended up in a kind of identity limbo.

Approved in Unicode 6.0 (2010) in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, pulled in from early Japanese carrier emoji sets (SoftBank, KDDI, DoCoMo). It was added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015 alongside most other legacy carrier emojis. Screen readers announce it as "Six-Pointed Star" or "Six-Pointed Star With Middle Dot" — never "Star of David," which is reserved for ✡️ U+2721.

On social media 🔯 gets used three ways. First, as a mistaken Star of David: people who can't find ✡️ on their keyboard grab the first hexagram their autocomplete surfaces, which on many devices is 🔯. Second, as a deliberate Hindu yantra symbol in spiritual Instagram and astrology TikTok, where it represents the Shatkona, the Anahata heart chakra, or the divine union of Shiva and Shakti. Third, as a decorative cosmic sparkle, because it looks more ornate than ✨ and more mysterious than ⭐. Search interest stays flat and low year-round, with small spikes around Jewish holidays (when confused users pick it instead of ✡️) and around Diwali (when Hindu creators deliberately reach for it).

The hexagram itself is one of humanity's oldest and most-repeated geometric symbols. It shows up in Bronze Age ornament, in medieval Islamic architecture as the Seal of Solomon, in Hindu tantric yantras from the 8th to 12th centuries CE, and in Jewish contexts as early as a 3rd-to-4th-century synagogue stone from Khirbet Shura. The earliest Jewish text to call it "Shield of David" is Judah Hadassi's Eshkol Ha-Kofer from the mid-12th century, but its use as the distinctive symbol of the Jewish people only dates to 17th-century Prague.

The dotted variant, specifically, has deeper Hindu credentials. In the Mantra Mahodadhi, a 16th-century tantric compendium, the Shatkona with central bindu sits at the heart of yantras like the Sri Chakra. The bindu represents the unmanifest point from which the male Shiva triangle and female Shakti triangle emerge. In the Anahata chakra diagram, described in earlier tantric texts and systematized by the medieval period, the same hexagram appears inside a twelve-petaled lotus at the heart. So when you pick the hexagram with the dot, you're picking the version that most closely matches the Hindu yantra tradition rather than the Jewish Magen David.

The emoji arrived in Unicode through a very different path. Japanese mobile carriers in the late 1990s and early 2000s shipped hundreds of proprietary pictographs, including a dotted hexagram used in astrology and fortune-telling contexts. When Unicode 6.0 unified those carrier emojis in 2010, this one was preserved under a generic name so it wouldn't claim any single tradition. That's why 🔯 exists alongside ✡️ at all — they're two sides of the same shape, encoded for two different reasons.

Encoded in Unicode 6.0 (October 2010) as U+1F52F SIX POINTED STAR WITH MIDDLE DOT in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block. Carried over from Japanese carrier emoji sets. Added to Emoji 1.0 (August 2015) with default emoji presentation. See the Unicode code chart.

1. 2010Encoded in Unicode 6.0 under the neutral name Six Pointed Star with Middle Dot.
2. 2015Added to Emoji 1.0 with full-color presentation on all major platforms.
3. 2016Apple redesigned the glyph in iOS 10.2 as a gold star on a dark purple mystic-looking disc, leaning into the fortune-telling reading.
4. 2018Twitter's Twemoji 12 adopted an orange-and-gold variant, distinct from Apple's purple backdrop.
5. 2020Microsoft's Fluent redesign rendered it as a flat purple hexagram, matching the new Windows emoji system.
6. 2022Google's Noto Color Emoji (Android 13) kept it minimal: a blue-purple hexagram with a yellow center dot.

In India, 🔯 is read almost exclusively as a Hindu yantra symbol or as the Anahata (heart chakra) icon. The bindu makes it unambiguous. In Israel and Jewish diaspora communities, it's seen as an inferior Star of David substitute and some find the dot annoying because it reads as decorative rather than sacred. In the United States and Western Europe, the emoji sits in identity limbo. Many users don't know there are two different hexagram emojis, and autocomplete regularly surfaces whichever one is more frequent in their usage history. In esoteric and neo-pagan Western circles, 🔯 is preferred specifically because it reads as non-denominational occult, not tied to Judaism or Hinduism.

• •The hexagram shape predates every religion that uses it. It shows up in Bronze Age ornaments from Mesopotamia to Britain, thousands of years before Judaism, Hinduism, or Islam existed.
• •In medieval alchemy, the hexagram's six points each held one of the seven classical planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Venus), with the center reserved for the Sun and gold.
• •The Japanese bamboo weave pattern kagome produces a six-pointed star purely from weaving physics. It appears on the crest of Ise Shrine, Japan's most sacred Shinto site, with no connection to Judaism or Hinduism.
• •The Anahata heart chakra is drawn as a hexagram inside a twelve-petaled lotus. Yogic tradition puts this symbol right at the center of the chest. Millions of yoga practitioners see a version of 🔯 every time they meditate on the heart.
• •King Solomon's legendary Seal of Solomon was said to command djinn. The myth passed from Jewish to Islamic to Western occult traditions, dragging the hexagram with it through 2,000 years of folklore.
• •The shape became the definitive symbol of Judaism surprisingly recently. As Aish explains, Prague's Jewish community adopted it in the 14th century but it only spread as a shared symbol in the 17th century.
• •Unicode 6.0 encoded U+1F52F specifically because Japanese mobile carriers had shipped a dotted hexagram pictograph used in astrology and fortune-telling — that legacy is why the emoji exists at all.

• •Using 🔯 for Hanukkah or Jewish holidays. It is not the Star of David. Jewish users will notice the dot, and some find the substitution disrespectful. Reach for ✡️.
• •Assuming the dot is just a stylistic flourish. In Hindu iconography the bindu is central — it's the non-dual source of creation, and removing it changes the symbol's meaning.
• •Treating it as a generic occult symbol. In most traditions where the hexagram appears, it's sacred rather than creepy. Context matters.

• •Anahata chakra graphics on yoga studio walls, meditation apps, and wellness Instagram all use a version of the dotted hexagram. Calm, Insight Timer, and Headspace have all cycled illustrations of the Shatkona through their chakra-meditation content.
• •The Sri Yantra, one of the most famous tantric diagrams, is built from nine interlocking triangles producing multiple Shatkonas with a central bindu. It's tattooed, printed, and worn as jewelry across the global yoga community.
• •Medieval grimoires like the Lesser Key of Solomon depict the Seal of Solomon as a hexagram used to bind spirits. That imagery still appears in modern fantasy novels, video games (Dungeons & Dragons, Diablo, Shin Megami Tensei), and occult TikTok.
• •Japan's Kagome crest appears in anime and manga (notably Kagome Higurashi in InuYasha, whose name and symbolic arrow use the pattern) as a Shinto motif with zero Jewish or Hindu connotation.

• •Codepoint: U+1F52F. No variation selector required — it ships as full-color by default on every platform that supports Emoji 1.0.
• •In a religious-symbol picker, do not label this emoji as "Star of David." Label it "Six-Pointed Star" or "Shatkona" (Hindu). ✡️ U+2721 is the right codepoint for Jewish contexts.
• •When building alt text, avoid "Jewish star" unless the surrounding context clearly means ✡️. Screen readers will say "Six-Pointed Star."
• •Font coverage: included in Apple Color Emoji, Noto Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Twemoji, EmojiOne. Safe to use everywhere.

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