The Dead Simple Markdown Guide to Emphasis | HackerNoon
Briefly

To emphasize text in Markdown, use two asterisks or underscores for bolding, one for italicizing, and three for combining both—ensuring compatibility across applications.
Markdown applications have varying treatments of underscores in the middle of words, so it's recommended to use asterisks for both bold and italic emphasis for consistency.
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