﹡
Technical information
| Symbol | ﹡ | |
| Name | Small asterisk | |
| Unicode number | U+FE61 | |
| Category | Asterisk | |
| Description | The Unicode character ﹡, or U+FE61, is known as the "Small Asterisk". It belongs to the "Small Form Variants" block and falls under the "Symbol" category in the Unicode standard. The Small Asterisk is a variant of the regular asterisk (*) but is typically smaller and sometimes rendered slightly differently according to typographic settings. It can be used in a similar manner as the standard asterisk, serving as a footnote marker in text, indicating multiplication in mathematical equations, or representing omitted material. Its smaller size can be useful in contexts where space or visual emphasis is a consideration. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ﹡ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ﹡ | |
| URL Escape Code | %EF%B9%A1 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xEF 0xB9 0xA1 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11101111:10111001:10100001 | |
| UTF-16 | 0xFE61 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000FE61 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\uFE61" | |
| CSS Code | \FE61 | |
| JavaScript | "\uFE61" | |
| Perl | \x{FE61} | |
| Python 2 | u"\uFE61" | |
| Python 3 | \uFE61 | |
| Ruby | \u{FE61} |
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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100
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200
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300
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400
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500
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900
HTML Forms and Input
input
disabled input
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select
button
button
Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>﹡</span>
span {
content: "\FE61";
}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