Technical information

Symbol
NameAsterisk operator
Unicode numberU+2217
CategoryMath starsAsterisk
DescriptionThe 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-160x2217
UTF-320x00002217

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u2217"
CSS Code\2217
JavaScript"\u2217"
Perl\x{2217}
Python 2u"\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 .

Font size:

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CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#8727;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\2217";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References