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Eight-Spoked Asterisk
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.
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