eight-spoked asterisk

Esterisco

⁓ 2733 FE0E  text style ⁓ 2733 FE0F  emoji style

Information

The eight-spoked asterisk is the starburst-y cousin of the plain old *. It looks like a compact explosion of eight evenly spaced spokes—think retro “NEW!” sticker energy without the price tag. On Apple/iOS, it shows up as a bright, minty-green burst with rounded tips and a soft gradient, the kind of pop that makes text look like it’s yelling politely. It’s instantly recognizable as the green one, not the orange eight-pointed star or the glittery ✨ sparkles.
People use it as a louder, flashier asterisk: for emphasis, as a decorative bullet, or to break up captions with a little kapow. It’s great for comic-style self-censorship (what the ✳️ was that), for ironic hype (“Just folded laundry ✳️ limited edition ✳️”), or as a retro UI highlight in bios and threads. You’ll also see it moonlighting as a faux snowflake, a mini compass rose, or a bike-wheel joke—basically anywhere a neat little geometric burst feels right. When ✨ is too dreamy and * is too quiet, this one brings tidy chaos with a wink.

Definition

A button for create new. It is an icon with a star on it on an epic green background. iEmoji old name: Green Star Icon.

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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.

1. This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
2. In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
3. The code generated for this emoji was changed slightly in iOS 7 / OSX 10.9 (a variation selector was added) advising the OS to display character emoji style instead of black and white text when available. We don't mind Apple, thank you! We just love our emojis! [Sources 11438-emoji-var.pdf 13.7 Variation Selectors (unicode.org)]

Emoji General Information

Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)	567 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture	Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name	:eight_spoked_asterisk:
Keywords
Previous Names:	Eight Spoked Asterisk Eight Smoked Asterisk

Unicode Category Information

Unicode Category	Dingbats
Unicode Range	2700–27BF
Unicode Subcategory	Stars, Asterisks and Snowflakes

Proposed Unicode Information & Notes

Unicode Category	Abstract Concepts
Unicode Subcategory	Stars, Asterisks and Snowflakes
Names & Annotations	EIGHT SPOKED ASTERISK Temporary Notes: Green/blue glitter, star
Symbol Information	✳ U+2733 unified (Unicode 1.1)
Proposal Identifier	e-B62

Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes

DoCoMo	#148 'Cute' かわいい 「kawaii」 U+E6F8 SJIS-F99D JIS-7E29
KDDI	#28 星１ U+E53E SJIS-F75A JIS-773B
Softbank	#462 #old186 飾り３ 「飾ri３」 U+E206 SJIS-F7A6

Emoji Character Encoding Data

Emoji Code Version	iOS 4 Code
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)	
UTF-8 Character Count	1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)	
Decimal HTML Entity	
Hexadecimal HTML Entity	
Hex Code Point(s)	e206
Formal Unicode Notation	U+E206
Decimal Code Point(s)	57862
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xEE 0x88 0x86
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	EE 88 86
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	356 210 206
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0xE206
UTF-16 Hex	e206
UTF-16 Dec	57862
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x0000E206
UTF-32 Hex	E206
UTF-32 Dec	57862
Python Src	u"\uE206"
PHP Src	"\xee\x88\x86"
C/C++/Java Src	"\uE206"

Emoji Code Version	iOS 5 Code
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)	✳
UTF-8 Character Count	1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)	✳
Decimal HTML Entity	✳
Hexadecimal HTML Entity	✳
Hex Code Point(s)	2733
Formal Unicode Notation	U+2733
Decimal Code Point(s)	10035
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xE2 0x9C 0xB3
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	E2 9C B3
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	342 234 263
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0x2733
UTF-16 Hex	2733
UTF-16 Dec	10035
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x00002733
UTF-32 Hex	2733
UTF-32 Dec	10035
Python Src	u"\u2733"
PHP Src	"\xe2\x9c\xb3"
C/C++/Java Src	"\u2733"

Emoji Code Version	iOS 7 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)	✳️
UTF-8 Character Count	2
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)	✳️
Decimal HTML Entity	✳ ️
Hexadecimal HTML Entity	✳ ️
Hex Code Point(s)	2733, fe0f
Formal Unicode Notation	U+2733, U+FE0F
Decimal Code Point(s)	10035, 65039
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xE2 0x9C 0xB3, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	E2 9C B3, EF B8 8F
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	342 234 263, 357 270 217
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0x2733, 0xFE0F
UTF-16 Hex	2733, fe0f
UTF-16 Dec	10035, 65039
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x00002733 0x0000FE0F
UTF-32 Hex	2733, FE0F
UTF-32 Dec	10035, 65039
Python Src	u"\u2733\uFE0F"
PHP Src	"\xe2\x9c\xb3\xef\xb8\x8f"
C/C++/Java Src	"\u2733\uFE0F"

Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)