Used in a similar manner to a regular * asterisk character but tends to be shown in a similar vertical alignment to a • bullet point. The eight spoked asterisk has both a ✳︎ text and ✳️ emoji presentation available on most platforms.
Eight-Spoked Asterisk was approved as part of Unicode 1.1 in 1993 under the name “Eight Spoked Asterisk” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
U+2733
U+FE0F
✳️ Eight spoked asterisk
✳️ Variation selector-16