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Asterisk symbol

✳️ Eight-spoked asterisk

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✳️ Emoji meaning

Used for footnotes, notes, placeholders, censorship/bleeping.

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✳️ Meaning

The asterisk is the typographical symbol for a footnote or a note and a special key on the keyboard. Placeholder in words you don’t want to write out: He’s an a...! Also known as gender asterisk.

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Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Eight-spoked asterisk” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ eight-spoked

Keywords removed

- eight-spoked asterisk

In the release of Emoji 12.0 and Unicode 12.0 in 2019 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ *

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ eight-spoked asterisk

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ asterisk

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