A five-pointed star (☆), geometrically an equilateral concave decagon, is a common ideogram in modern culture. Comparatively rare in classical heraldry...

The pentagram, a five-pointed star drawn with five straight strokes The star and crescent symbol is mostly shown with five-pointed stars in modern flags...

 Namibia — twelve-pointed star  Nauru — twelve-pointed star  Azerbaijan — eight-pointed star  Australia — one 5-pointed star and five 7-pointed stars  Cuba...

Baháʼí Faith: the nine-pointed star, a calligraphy known as the "Greatest Name", the Ringstone Symbol, or a five-pointed star. According to the Abjad...

A red star, five-pointed and filled, is a symbol that has often historically been associated with communist ideology, particularly in combination with...

as having five points, in some fonts it has a different number. In some, such as Arial Unicode MS, it even has six. "ARABIC FIVE POINTED STAR (U+066D)...

left canton (quarter), which contains a white crescent and a white five-pointed star. Running slightly less than half the length of the flag, the field...

pentagram (sometimes known as a pentalpha, pentangle, or star pentagon) is a regular five-pointed star polygon, formed from the diagonal line segments of a...

its six-lobed form (✻). The Arabic star is given a distinct character in Unicode, U+066D ٭ ARABIC FIVE POINTED STAR (the note ‘appearance rather variable’...

armed forces and with tattoo culture. It is usually rendered as a five-pointed star in dark and light shades counterchanged in a style similar to a compass...

comprises the red-and-yellow bars of the Senyera, with the addition of a five-pointed star in a triangle at the hoist. The use of this flag as a protest symbol...

and a white isosceles triangle at the hoist, within which is a gold five-pointed star. It was designed in 1965 and officially adopted July 5, 1974. The...

a "sun-star" The Stella d'Italia ("Star of Italy"), popularly known as Stellone d'Italia ("Great Star of Italy"), is a five-pointed white star, which...

consists of five alternating stripes (three navy blue and two white) and a cherry red chevron at the hoist, within which is a white five-pointed star. It was...

Six-star rank Heraldic origin of the use of five-pointed star Design of US army insignia The following Americans have been promoted to five-star rank:...

spaced in a circular placement. For instance, in a regular pentagon, a five-pointed star can be obtained by drawing a line from the 1st to the 3rd vertex,...

It is an ethnic flag for the Somali people; the flag's five-pointed star represents the five regions in which Somalis reside. Beginning in the mid-19th...

the Star and Crescent (پرچمِ ستارہ و ہلال), is made up of a green field with a stylized tilted white descending crescent moon and five-pointed star at...

consisting of a machete crossed by a half-cogwheel and crowned with a five-pointed star. It was adopted on 11 November 1975, when Angola became independent...

that is pointed to the left. The People Nation alliance in most instances uses a five-pointed star in their gang graffiti. The five-pointed star has its...

Exceptionally, a combination of the crescent of Sin with the five-pointed star of Ishtar, with the star placed inside the crescent as in the later Hellenistic-era...

two such insignia for higher military ranks, both in the form of a five-pointed star of gold and platinum with diamonds. They are worn around the neck...

two equal horizontal bands of red (top) and green, with a yellow five-pointed star resting in the center. The flag was adopted on 4 August 1984. The...

A 5⁄16 inch star (9.7mm) is a miniature gold or silver five-pointed star that is authorized by the United States Armed Forces as a ribbon device to denote...

five-pointed star in the upper left corner. The design consists of four horizontal stripes and one vertical stripe, and a single yellow five-pointed star...

five-pointed star in its center. It was adopted on 18 October 1817. The Chilean flag is also known in Spanish as La Estrella Solitaria (The Lone Star)...

void in the middle, which altogether give the optical illusion of a five-pointed star. A triangled platform erected as the secondary stage is connected...

were to use a red flag with the star and crescent in white. In 1844, a version of this flag, with a five-pointed star, was officially adopted as the Ottoman...

A hexagram (Greek) or sexagram (Latin) is a six-pointed geometric star figure with the Schläfli symbol {6/2}, 2{3}, or {{3}}. The term is used to refer...

as star (as, for example, in the A* search algorithm or C*-algebra). An asterisk is usually five- or six-pointed in print and six- or eight-pointed when...