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Technical information
| Symbol | ∗ | |
| Name | Asterisk operator | |
| Unicode number | U+2217 | |
| Category | Math starsAsterisk | |
| Description | The Unicode character ∗, or U+2217, is known as the "Asterisk Operator". It falls under the "Mathematical Operators" block and the "Math Symbol" category in the Unicode standard. This character looks very similar to the common asterisk (*) but is placed higher relative to the baseline and is typically slightly smaller. In mathematics, the asterisk operator is often used to denote multiplication when the 'x' symbol might be confused with the letter 'x', or to denote convolution operations in signal processing. Additionally, in computer science, it can be used as a dereference operator or to denote pointer variables. |
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 ∗.
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Font size:
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CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
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span {
content: "\2217";
}The symbol in different fonts
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Apple Color Emoji
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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