Editing Asterisk (section)

===Telephony <span class="anchor" id="Star key"></span>===
{{further|E.161}}
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On a [[Dual-tone multi-frequency signaling|tone dialling]] telephone keypad, the asterisk (called ''star'') is one of the two special keys (the other is the [[Viewdata#Keypad symbols: the sextile and the square|'square]] key{{snd}} almost invariably replaced by the [[number sign]] {{char|#}} (called 'pound sign' (US), 'hash' (other countries), or 'hex'), and is found to the left of the zero<ref name=p>{{Cite web|title=E.161 : Arrangement of digits, letters and symbols on telephones and other devices that can be used for gaining access to a telephone network|url=https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-E.161|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191114053110/https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-E.161|archive-date=2019-11-14|access-date=2019-11-14|website=www.itu.int}}</ref>). They are used to navigate menus in systems such as [[voice mail]], or in [[vertical service code]]s. Its [[codepoint]] in [[Unicode]] is {{unichar|2217|html=|nlink=}} as a valid alternative usage.<ref>{{cite web |title=Miscellaneous mathematical symbols |url=https://www.unicode.org/charts/nameslist/n_2200.html |publisher=[[Unicode Consortium]]}}</ref>