html-entity

⋆

⋆

HTML named character reference ⋆ maps to U+22C6.

Mapping

Named reference
⋆
Code point(s)
U+22C6
Decimal
8902
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

Source

Unicode
16.0.0
WHATWG
snapshot 2026-08-02