ASTERISK

Property Value
Codepoint U+002A
Literal Character *
Name ASTERISK
Sketch
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Aliases star
Control Character no
Block Basic Latin
Subblock C0 controls
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+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