What 🞱 means
Use a character picker or an input method that accepts U+1F7B1.
Word and Outlook's Alt+X shortcut accepts at most four hexadecimal digits, so it cannot enter this five-digit value (as of 2026).
An operating-system character picker is another route. The font draws the shape: another font may change its proportions, and a font without this glyph may display a box or replacement mark.
What does it mean in a message?
It has no fixed reading; placement gives it a job.
After a sentence, it can point to a note; in a redaction, it can stand in for hidden text. The heavier strokes add visual weight, but do not decide which reading applies.
The Unicode 17.0 account traces this shape family to the Webdings and Wingdings symbol-font tradition. The asterisk designs extend earlier sets with weights intended to scale evenly; that is a typographic lineage, not a separate message meaning.
Which asterisk is this?
It is the bold weight in a five-spoked series.
The series has six weights: light, medium, bold, heavy, very heavy, and extremely heavy. The Unicode 17.0 Names List places its telephone-star annotation with the separate six-spoked series.
Typographic and neutral: the strokes are heavier, while placement tells readers whether it marks a note or hidden text.
A font without this glyph may show a box or replacement mark; the character itself has not changed.
Don't confuse it with
3Questions people ask
1Is this the telephone keypad's star?
No. The Unicode 17.0 Names List places the telephone-star annotation with the separate six-spoked series.
How to type 🞱
🞱\1F7B1Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.