> But I think I do if I want to make it so that this entity, and quite 
> a few other numeric entities, survive the transform to html for later 
> posting. Otherwise I get "*" in my html code rather than "&8226;" 
> which displays like this "⤢".
> 
This thing is neither an entity nor an entity reference. It is a
character reference.

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