*️ Asterisk
Copy and paste this emoji: *️
Emoji Meaning
1
A simple asterisk (star) emoji representing the "*" key on a keyboard. Commonly used in telephone menus and other automated voice-response systems.
2
An icon showing the asterisk "*" key, just like the one on the keypad of every mobile phone. The asterisk (often used alongside the hash/pound key) appears in voice menus and when dialing USSD requests. As an emoji, it’s a handy way to highlight an important part of your message.
Unicode Name
- *️ Asterisk
*️ Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+2A U+FE0F
For developers
| URL escape code | %2A%EF%B8%8F |
| Punycode | * |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | 2A EF B8 8F |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | *\uFE0F |
| C, C++, Python | \u002A\uFE0F |
| CSS | \2A \FE0F |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{2A}\u{FE0F} |
| Perl | \x{2A}\x{FE0F} |
| HTML hex | *️ |
| HTML dec | *️ |