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U+002A

ASTERISK

ASTERISK · Other Punctuation · Basic Latin · Common script

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Quick facts

Code point: U+002A
Decimal: 42
Name: ASTERISK
General category: Po — Other Punctuation
Block: Basic Latin
Script: Common
Bidi class: ON
Combining class: 0
Age: 1.1
Name aliases: —

Normalization & case

Decomposition: —
Uppercase: —
Lowercase: —
Titlecase: —
Case folding: —
Bidi mirrored: No

Layout & width

East Asian Width: Na
Line Break: AL
Numeric: —
Script extensions: —

Binary properties

EmojiEmoji_Component

Developer examples

JS: '\u{2a}' // U+002A
Python: "\N{ASTERISK}"
HTML: *

Encodings & escapes

UTF-8
UTF-16
UTF-32
HTML decimal
HTML hex
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ASCII

0x2A

Same code in 0x00–0x7F

HTML entity

&ast;

HTML entity

&midast;

Block

Basic Latin

Category

Other Punctuation

Script

Common

Source

Unicode: 16.0.0
WHATWG: —