ASTERISK

Codepoint
U+002A
Literal Character
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Name
ASTERISK
Sketch
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Aliases
star
Control Character
no
Block
Basic Latin
Subblock
ASCII punctuation and symbols
UTF-8 byte encoding
2a
UTF-16 byte encoding
00 2a (big endian)
HTML Entity
-
LaTeX expression
*
Perl string literal
\x{2A}
Comments
  • can have five or six spokes
See Also
U+066D: arabic five pointed star
U+203B: reference mark
U+2042: asterism
U+204E: low asterisk
U+2051: two asterisks aligned vertically
U+20F0: combining asterisk above
U+2217: asterisk operator
U+26B9: sextile
U+2731: heavy asterisk
U+A673: slavonic asterisk
U+1F7B6: medium six spoked asterisk
Used In