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Eight-spoked asterisk copy & paste

✳ is eight-spoked asterisk, a plain-text Unicode symbol from the Dingbats block. On Aesthetic Symbols it lives in the sparkles & glitter collection, tagged sparkle. As plain text it takes on the font and colour of wherever you paste it — a bio, a username, a caption or a stream title.

Unicode
U+2733
HTML entity
✳
CSS content
\2733
JavaScript
\u{2733}
UTF-8 bytes
E2 9C B3
Made of

U+2733 ✳ · Dingbats

Will it show up? · Long-established text symbols

Plain-text characters from blocks that mainstream desktop and mobile fonts have covered for years. These are the safe ones.

Worked out from how each character is encoded, not from a test on a real device.