✳
Eight Spoked Asterisk
- Unicode
- U+2733
- Category
- Stars
- HTML Entity
- ✳
- CSS
- \2733
The Eight Spoked Asterisk (✳) is a decorative dingbat symbol featuring eight distinct, radiating lines. Originally included in Unicode as part of the classic ITC Zapf Dingbats font, it serves as an aesthetic alternative to the standard typographic asterisk. Today, it is commonly used as an eye-catching bullet point, a footnote marker, or a subtle sparkle on social media to emphasize text.
How to Type
- Windows
- Win + . then search "eight spoked asterisk"
- macOS
- Control + Command + Space then search "eight spoked asterisk"
- Linux
- Ctrl + Shift + U then 2733
- HTML
- ✳
In Programming
Unlike the standard asterisk (*), this symbol is not recognized as a mathematical operator or wildcard in programming languages. It is occasionally used in code comments or UI documentation as a distinct, decorative footnote marker.
Tags
eight spoked
asterisk
decoration
star shape
snowflake