Keycap: * is the Unicode character *️⃣ at codepoint U+002A in the Basic Latin block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard — or use one of the
encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.
Technical Reference
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How to Use Keycap: *
To use the Keycap: * symbol (*️⃣) in HTML, insert the
entity *️⃣ directly into your markup.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\2A';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u002A' evaluates to *️⃣. In Python source, write '\u002A'.
The character encodes to 2A as UTF-8 bytes and 002A as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 42.
This is a fully-qualified emoji and should render with colour on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. Appearance may vary between platforms, but the underlying codepoint is identical everywhere.