Asterisk *

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U+002A
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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

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