*️⃣

Keycap: * Emoji *️⃣

What *️⃣ means

A white six-spoked star or asterisk pasted onto a faded-blue rounded square. The *️⃣ Keycap: * emoji represents the asterisk or the star key. It could signify a censor, a verbal blur, a correction, or even a symbol of navigation and continuation.

How and when to use it

If you're referring to an offense, stating an offensive sentence or word, or even sharing a viral post/repost containing and surround offense, use *️⃣. For instance, "TW *️⃣: Contains offensive language".
You may also use *️⃣ while typing out an abusive word (not sure what the point is, but if you're up for censorship, this point is useful).
Speaking of censorship, *️⃣ the way to go. It doesn't matter if you're for or against it, you could use this emoji either way. For example, "Free the goddamn nipple! *️⃣", "Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself *️⃣" or "Fcuk you *️⃣ Did I place the asterisk right?".
*️⃣ also acts as a mode of continuation. Like, "I want to tell you something, remind me *️⃣". 12 days later. "Hey remember??? *️⃣".
*️⃣ is just the emoji version of the keyboard asterisk (*). However, since emojis are such a prominent part of the social media lingo, this emoji would be the perfect replacement.

Other Names

*️⃣ Asterisk
*️⃣ Terms and Conditions Apply
*️⃣ Six-Pointed Star
*️⃣ Star Keycap
*️⃣ Censorship
*️⃣ Blur
*️⃣ Bullet
*️⃣ Ditto
*️⃣ Reference

The lowdown

Category: Symbols › keycap
Codepoints: U+002A U+FE0F U+20E3
Emoji version: Emoji 2.0
Shortcodes: :asterisk: GitHub · Discord:keycap_star: Slack:keycap_asterisk: Discord
Keywords: keycap

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.