Keycap Asterisk Emoji
*️⃣
What does the Keycap Asterisk emoji mean?
1
A blue tile with a six-pointed asterisk in the middle: often called the pound sign and commonly found on a phone keypad.
2
The key showing an asterisk symbol ✳️ (or *) appears as a small blue square — a familiar button on mobile-phone and personal computer keyboards.
This symbol is often combined with other keys for USSD requests on mobile networks, and it’s also commonly used to mark a note or footnote.
Also Known As
- *️⃣ Star Keycap
Apple Name
- *️⃣ Keycap Asterisk
Unicode Name
- *️⃣ Keycap Asterisk
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
*️⃣ Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+2A U+FE0F U+20E3
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Discord
- works in Slack
- works in Emojipedia, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %2A%EF%B8%8F%E2%83%A3 |
| Punycode | xn--*-2sn |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | 2A EF B8 8F E2 83 A3 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | *\uFE0F\u20E3 |
| C, C++, Python | *\uFE0F\u20E3 |
| CSS | *\FE0F \20E3 |
| PHP, Ruby | *\u{FE0F}\u{20E3} |
| Perl | *\x{FE0F}\x{20E3} |
| HTML hex | *️⃣ |
| HTML dec | *️⃣ |