Medium Six Spoked Asterisk
Part of Geometric Shapes
Medium Six Spoked Asterisk has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- 🞶
- Unicode
- U+1F7B6
About this symbol
🞶, a six-spoked asterisk, may stand for the star key of telephone keypads, according to Unicode’s notes, as set out in the ITU standard E.161 for the layout of phone keys. Bell’s push-button phones added the star and hash keys in 1968.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- MEDIUM SIX SPOKED ASTERISK
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Geometric Shapes Extended
- Unicode group
- Six spoked asterisks
- Added in
- Unicode 7.0 (2014)
- Unicode notes
- May represent the “star” symbol devised in ITU-T E.161 for use on telephony devices
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Geometric Shapes chart for related characters.