{"id":643,"date":"2026-05-29T10:19:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/glossary\/star\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:19:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:19:37","slug":"star","status":"publish","type":"term","link":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/glossary\/star\/","title":{"rendered":"Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A **star** is one of the most common charges in modern flag design. Stars vary in the number of their points \u2014 five, six, seven, eight and more \u2014 and in their arrangement: single, in groups, or in patterns such as the Southern Cross. Stars often symbolise a polity, a region or an ideal; the number of stars is frequently fixed by law and changes when the political composition of the bearer changes.<\/p>\n<p>**Example**: The fifty stars in the canton of the United States flag stand for the fifty states, and have been added in successive revisions since 1777.<\/p>\n<p>**See also**: [charge](\/glossary\/charge\/), [crescent](\/glossary\/crescent\/), [canton](\/glossary\/canton\/), [field](\/glossary\/field\/)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-643","term","type-term","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/term\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/term"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/term"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}