"*" U+002A Asterisk

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Unicode Data

The Unicode character U+002A, displayed as * and named "Asterisk" is located in the Basic Latin block. This character was introduced in Unicode version 1.1 (1993). Find its HTML entities, UTF-8/UTF-16 encodings, hex values, and copy-paste details below.

Name:: Asterisk
Category:: Other Punctuation
Block:: Basic Latin
Script:: Common
Bidirectional:: Other Neutrals
Mirrored:: No
Unicode Version:: Unicode 1.1

Character Encodings

HTML Entity - Named:

&ast;

&midast;

HTML Entity - Decimal:

*

HTML Entity - Hex:

*

Unicode:

U+002A;

Decimal:

42

CSS:

\00002A

Javascript:

\u002A

Perl:

\x{2A}

Ruby:

\u{2A}

Python:

u'\u002A'

UTF-8 Encoding:

2A

UTF-16 Encoding:

002A

UTF-32 Encoding:

0000002A

Other Characters Based on - * (U+002A)

Image	Browser	Unicode	Name
	﹡	U+FE61	Small Asterisk
	＊	U+FF0A	Fullwidth Asterisk