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Small Asterisk

Group: Punctuation

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About this character

Small Asterisk belongs to the Punctuation group and is encoded at U+FE61. 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
U+FE61
Hex
FE61
Decimal
65121
HTML
﹡
CSS
\FE61
JavaScript
\uFE61
Python
\uFE61
UTF-8
EF B9 A1

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

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