✳️ Eight-spoked Asterisk emoji

Copy the ✳️ Eight-spoked Asterisk emoji (2 code points), a Symbols emoji from Emoji 0.6 (2010), with its HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL codes.

CLDR name: eight-spoked asterisk
Code points: U+2733 U+FE0F
Type: Character plus emoji variation selector
Group: Symbols
Subgroup: Other symbol
Introduced: Emoji 0.6 (2010)
Text form: ✳ (U+2733)
Keywords: *, asterisk, eight-spoked

About this emoji

✳️ Eight-spoked Asterisk is an emoji in the Symbols group, other symbol subgroup, first released in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the label Unicode gives to characters that became emoji with Unicode 6.0 in 2010, before emoji had version numbers of their own.

CLDR, the Unicode project that supplies emoji names in many languages, gives it the English keywords *, asterisk and eight-spoked; that is what emoji keyboards match when you search.

It is the character ✳ (U+2733 EIGHT SPOKED ASTERISK) followed by the variation selector U+FE0F, which asks for the colourful emoji style. Without the selector, many systems show a plain text symbol instead.

Codes to copy

HTML decimal	`✳️`Works in HTML and XML.
HTML hex	`✳️`Works in HTML and XML.
CSS	`content: "\2733 \FE0F";`In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after.
JavaScript	`"\u2733\uFE0F"`Also valid in JSON.
Python	`"\u2733\ufe0f"`Python 3 string literal.
Python by name	`"\N{EIGHT SPOKED ASTERISK}\N{VARIATION SELECTOR-16}"`Readable alternative using the Unicode name.
URL	`%E2%9C%B3%EF%B8%8F`Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value.
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 9C B3 EF B8 8F`6 bytes in all.
UTF-16	`2733 FE0F`2 code units, which is what JavaScript length counts.

What it is made of

Code point	Shows as	Unicode name
`U+2733`	✳	EIGHT SPOKED ASTERISK
`U+FE0F`	invisible	VARIATION SELECTOR-16

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