Asterisk *
Symbol Meaning
Asterisk. Basic Latin.
The symbol “Asterisk” is included in the “ASCII punctuation and symbols” subblock of the “Basic Latin” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
Synonyms
star.
| Unicode Name | Asterisk |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | * |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Basic Latin |
| Unicode Subblock | ASCII punctuation and symbols |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Alt Code |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 002A |
| Simple case change | 002A |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | 2A | 42 | 42 | 00101010 |
| UTF-16BE | 00 2A | 0 42 | 42 | 00000000 00101010 |
| UTF-16LE | 2A 00 | 42 0 | 10752 | 00101010 00000000 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 00 2A | 0 0 0 42 | 42 | 00000000 00000000 00000000 00101010 |
| UTF-32LE | 2A 00 00 00 | 42 0 0 0 | 704643072 | 00101010 00000000 00000000 00000000 |
