const.id

html-entity

*

*

*

HTML named character reference * maps to U+002A.

Mapping

Named reference
*
Code point(s)
U+002A
Decimal
42
Characters
*

Numeric character references

Named
Decimal
Hex

Usage

Prefer a named reference when the character must survive encoding mistakes or is awkward to type. Numeric references (*) are always valid HTML for the mapped code point(s).

Related

Unicode

U+002A

ASCII

0x2A

Same character

Other entities

Entities that produce this code point

Source

Unicode
16.0.0
WHATWG
snapshot 2026-08-02