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Technical information
| Symbol | ∗ | |
| Name | asterisk operator | |
| Unicode number | U+2217 | |
| Category | Math starsAsterisk | |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ∗ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ∗ | |
| HTML Entity (named) | ∗ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%88%97 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x88 0x97 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10001000:10010111 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x2217 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00002217 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u2217" | |
| CSS Code | \2217 | |
| JavaScript | "\u2217" | |
| Perl | \x{2217} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u2217" | |
| Python 3 | \u2217 | |
| Ruby | \u{2217} |
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
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span {
content: "\2217";
}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