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Technical information
| Symbol | * | |
| Name | Asterisk | |
| Unicode number | U+002A | |
| Category | AsteriskASCII Table2. ASCII punctuation and symbols | |
| Description | The Unicode character *, or U+002A, is known as the "Asterisk". It falls under the "Basic Latin" block and the "Punctuation, other" category in the Unicode standard. The asterisk is used in a variety of contexts in mathematics, writing, and programming. In mathematics, it often represents multiplication. In writing, it is often used to indicate a footnote or to censor parts of words. In computer programming, it can have various uses, such as pointer declarations in languages like C or C++, or as a wildcard character in search patterns. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | * | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | * | |
| HTML Entity (named) | * | |
| URL Escape Code | %2A | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x2A | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 00101010 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x002A | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000002A |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u002A" | |
| CSS Code | \002A | |
| JavaScript | "\u002A" | |
| Perl | \x{002A} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u002A" | |
| Python 3 | \u002A | |
| Ruby | \u{002A} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this * in sentence and in bold like this * and in italic like this *.
input-group
Font size:
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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
input
disabled input
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select
button
button
Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>*</span>
span {
content: "\002A";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana