✳️

Eight-spoked Asterisk Emoji ✳️

Eight straight spokes radiating from a center point, officially the Eight Spoked Asterisk in Unicode since 1993. It reached emoji keyboards via Japanese carrier phones in the late 1990s, working as a decorative bullet or footnote marker, not a shape meant to read as a star. Flat spokes, no filled body, set it apart from ✴️ and ❇️.

What ✳️ means

A white circular design made of eight spokes printed onto a green square box. The ✳️ Eight-Spoked Asterisk is essentially a blown-up, emoji-version of the '*' (asterisk). It signifies correction, special note/notice, or bullet points.

How and when to use it

If you're putting up personal post with a caption that surrounds a 'correction' or a sense of correcting someone (literally or metaphorically), you could use ✳️. Like, "For the last time, it's NOT zee-bra. It's ze-bra ✳️" or "Does your name get horribly mispronounced too? ✳️".
Asterisks are vital for contexts that have subsections of content in them. If you're sarcastically pointing out such a section or genuinely typing a caption/text message resonating with the same, bring in ✳️.
Some instances for the previous use-case - "80% percent off, but only on damaged, unloved and emotionally unavailable tapestries ✳️" or "Happy birthday! But, wait. You're just another day older and closer to death ✳️".
You may use ✳️ as bullet points while jotting down points in a text message or conveying some important bite-size content in a post caption.

Other Names

✳️ Green Asterisk
✳️ Asterisk Bullet Point
✳️ Bullet
✳️ Censor
✳️ Pointer
✳️ Asterisk With Eight Spokes
✳️ Correction
✳️ Terms and Conditions

The lowdown

Category: Symbols › other-symbol
Codepoints: U+2733 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :eight_spoked_asterisk: GitHub
Keywords: *, asterisk, eight-spoked

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.