*️⃣ Keycap: * Emoji
*️⃣ Copy & Paste
| *️⃣ |  Noto Color Emoji (Unicode 15.1) |
*️⃣ Meaning
The "*️⃣" emoji depicts a keycap of an asterisk "*". It is commonly used to represent a star key on a phone keypad or keyboard. The asterisk often signifies a footnote, multiplication, a wildcard for searches, or to censor words in informal text communication.
Text examples:
- I loved the book, but there's an interesting twist in the plot*. *️⃣See footnote for details.
- Use the search pattern 'book*️⃣' to find any words starting with "book".
- I can't believe you said ****️⃣️⃣️⃣️⃣! (when censoring offensive language)
*️⃣ Images
Google
Noto Color Emoji 15.1
Google
Noto Emoji 15.0
OpenMoji
OpenMoji 15.0
Twitter / X
Twemoji 14.0
*️⃣ Support
Google
Android 6.0.1+
*️⃣ Image History
Android 4.3 Jelly Bean: ❌ | Mozilla FxEmojis 1.7.9: ❌ OpenMoji OpenMoji 13.1: ✅ Twitter / X Twemoji 2.3: ✅ |
*️⃣ Translate: Keycap: * Emoji in other languages
| Language | Shortname |
|---|---|
| Arabic | مفتاح: * |
| Chinese | 按键: * |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 按鍵: * |
| French | touches : * |
| German | Taste: * |
| Hindi | कीकैप: * |
| Italian | tasto: * |
| Japanese | 囲み数字: * |
| Korean | 키 캡: * |
| Portuguese | tecla: * |
| Spanish | Teclas: * |
| Turkish | tuş: * |
| *️⃣ emoji in over 100 languages | |
| Source: Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) v43 | |
*️⃣ Unicode Data
| Unicode Code Point(s) | *: U+2A Variation Selector-16: U+FE0F ⃣: U+20E3 |
| Emoji Version | Emoji 3.0 |
*️⃣ Codes
| Shortcode (Discord) | :asterisk: | |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :asterisk: | |
| Shortcode (Slack) | :keycap_star: | |
| HTML Dec | *️⃣ | |
| HTML Hex | *️⃣ | |
| CSS | *\FE0F \20E3 | |
| C, C++ & Python | *\uFE0F\u20E3 | |
| Java, JavaScript & JSON | *\uFE0F\u20E3 | |
| Perl | *\x{FE0F}\x{20E3} | |
| PHP & Ruby | *\u{FE0F}\u{20E3} | |
| Punycode | xn--*-2sn | |
| URL Escape Code | %2A%EF%B8%8F%E2%83%A3 |