Used in a similar manner to a regular * asterisk character but tends to be shown in a similar vertical alignment to a • bullet point. The eight spoked asterisk has both a โณ๏ธ text and โณ๏ธ emoji presentation available on most platforms.
Eight-Spoked Asterisk was approved as part of Unicode 1.1 in 1993 under the name โEight Spoked Asteriskโ and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
โณ๏ธ Eight Spoked Asterisk