diff --git a/crates/languages/src/markdown/config.toml b/crates/languages/src/markdown/config.toml
index 926dcd70d9f9207c03154690e7d4e9866f9aacea..36071cb5392462a51c10e0513b39979580ec67f5 100644
--- a/crates/languages/src/markdown/config.toml
+++ b/crates/languages/src/markdown/config.toml
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ brackets = [
     { start = "\"", end = "\"", close = false, newline = false },
     { start = "'", end = "'", close = false, newline = false },
     { start = "`", end = "`", close = false, newline = false },
+    { start = "*", end = "*", close = false, newline = false, surround = true },
 ]
 rewrap_prefixes = [
     "[-*+]\\s+",