Asterism
Group: Punctuation
Keywords
About this character
Asterism belongs to the Punctuation group and is encoded at U+2042. 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+2042 - Hex
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2042 - Decimal
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8258 - HTML
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⁂ - CSS
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\2042 - JavaScript
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\u2042 - Python
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\u2042 - UTF-8
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The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.