Eight-spoked asterisk
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- Shortcode
:eight_spoked_asterisk:- Unicode
U+2733- HTML
✳- CSS
\2733- JavaScript
"\u{2733}"- URL
%E2%9C%B3%EF%B8%8F
What ✳️ means
A green box holding an asterisk with eight spokes. It works as an attention mark, a bullet, or a footnote sign.
People use ✳️ to flag key points, list items or special notes, much like * in plain text. It also adds a burst of decoration to captions and bios. It is often confused with ❇️ and ✴️.
Facts
Eight-spoked asterisk ✳️ is an emoji in the symbols category, under other symbol. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :eight_spoked_asterisk:. People also look for it with words like “*”, “asterisk”, or “eight-spoked”.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2019
2021
2026
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.