Nobody needs to hear this, but…

The "star" key on a telephone is actually represented by a sextile ⚹ according to ITU recommendation E.161

Many smartphone dialers get this wrong and use an asterisk *, full-width asterisk ＊, or asterisk operator ∗

@LilahTovMoon this is as bad as all the dashes (- – —)

@Dangerous_beans There are so many great dashes!

- hyphen minus
﹣ small hyphen minus
－ full width hyphen minus
− minus sign
soft hyphen (yeah, there's an invisible hyphen)
‐ hyphen
‑ non-breaking hyphen
‒ figure dash
– en dash
— em dash
﹘ small em dash
― horizontal bar or quotation dash
⁓ swung dash (which is not a tilde)
⸚ hyphen with diaeresis
⸺ two em dash
⸻ three em dash
⹀ double hyphen (not an equal sign)
゠ katakana double hyphen
〰 wavy dash
︱ vertical em dash

The possibilities are endless! Well, finite, but way larger than you'd think.

@LilahTovMoon @Dangerous_beans what in the hells is the hyphen with umlaut for?

edit: y'all keep sharing your more creative interpretations by all means, but the serious answer is covered now, thanks! (https://prettyaweso.me/@chunshek/117318469198435860)

@iris @LilahTovMoon @Dangerous_beans German lexicography. See here:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E2%B8%9A