Keycap: * *️⃣
Copy & Meaning

An asterisk keycap — the * symbol represented as a pressable button, combining the keyboard key aesthetic with the asterisk symbol's many functions. The asterisk key serves multiple purposes: multiplication in arithmetic, wildcard in search queries, pointer dereference in programming, footnote marking in text, and the 'star' button on telephone keypads for accessing services.

Used for telephone keypad references, programming contexts involving asterisk as operator, footnote and annotation discussions, wildcard search explanations, and the general keyboard culture context where specific key symbols need representation as physical button-press actions.