Asterisk
Group: Punctuation
Keywords
About this character
Asterisk belongs to the Punctuation group and is encoded at U+002A. It was added in Unicode 0.0.
Shortcode
Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.
Technical codes
- Code point
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U+002A - Hex
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002A - Decimal
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42 - HTML
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* - CSS
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\2A - JavaScript
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\u002A - Python
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\u002A - UTF-8
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2A
The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.