U+002A— ASTERISK
Asterisk (*) used for multiplication in computing, pointer dereferencing, and wildcard matching.
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ASTERISK
U+002A • Decimal 42
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1-Click Multi-Language Developer Copy Palette (13 Formats)
Instant Clipboard ExportCharacter Glyph (Raw)
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Unicode Codepoint (Hex)
U+002A
Decimal Integer
42
HTML Entity (Decimal)
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HTML Entity (Hex)
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JavaScript ES6 / JSON
\u002A
Java / C# (Surrogates)
\u002A
Python 3
\u002A
C / C++ / Rust
\u002A
CSS Content
\00002A
URL Percent-Encoded
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Raw UTF-8 Bytes (Hex)
0x2A
Base64 Stream
Kg==
Unicode Character Database (UCD) Technical Specifications
Unicode 16.0 Standard| Unicode Plane | Plane 0: Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) • U+0000..U+FFFF |
| Unicode Block | Basic Latin (U+0..U+7F) |
| General Category | Lo — Other Letter / Symbol |
| Bidirectional Class | L (Left-to-Right) • Flow: LTR |
| Unicode Version Introduced | Unicode 1.1 (1993) |
| UTF-8 Byte Stream | 0x2A (1 Byte) |
| UTF-16 Code Units | 0x002A |
| UTF-32 Hexadecimal | 0x0000002A |
Quick Character Summary
Glyph*
Hex CodepointU+002A
Decimal ID42
ScriptLatin
DirectionLTR (L)
Introduced InUnicode 1.1 (1993)
Device & Font Support
99.9% SupportApple (iOS / macOS)iOS 1.0+
Google (Android / Chrome)Android 1.0+
Microsoft (Windows)Windows 95+
ASCII core character supported on virtually every digital display and operating system in existence.