What 🞷 means
It is a six-spoked decorative asterisk.
Use it as a divider, ornament, or emphasis mark; where it sits supplies the role. A 2011 Unicode proposal identifies it as Wingdings2 glyph w-2220. The proposal dates the original Wingdings fonts to 1992 and describes their use in Windows and Mac documents. Encoding font-private symbols made them searchable and interoperable as text. The proposal describes a font and text interoperability problem, not a separate ritual or regional meaning for this bold form.
What does 🞷 mean when someone sends it?
Alone, it shows an asterisk shape, not the sender’s intent.
Read the surrounding words and layout to tell whether it marks emphasis, decorates a heading, or separates text.
Typographic and decorative; it reads as a deliberately chosen mark rather than ordinary conversational punctuation.
A font without a drawing for it may show a missing-glyph box.
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsIts shape identifies an asterisk, but not the sender’s intent.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
4Questions people ask
2Why does 🞷 show as a box?
The font may not contain a drawing for this character. Try a font that supports it; the character itself stays the same.
Can 🞷 stand for the star key on a phone?
No. The Unicode phone-key annotation belongs to the medium six-spoked variant , not this bold one. Use the character named by your keypad or specification.
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How to type or find 🞷
- Search it as
- bold asterisk · six-spoked asterisk · Wingdings2 asterisk · Unicode asterisk · asterisk divider
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
🞷\1F7B7\1F7B7 ; keep the final space if another hex digit follows.\u{1F7B7} in a Unicode-aware JavaScript string.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.