Unicode Character "⁎" (U+204E)

The character ⁎ (Low Asterisk) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+204E. It is encoded in the General Punctuation block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 3.2 (March, 2002). It is HTML encoded as ⁎.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Low Asterisk
Unicode Codepoint U+204E
Unicode Version 3.2 (March, 2002)
Block General Punctuation
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Other Neutral (ON)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Punctuation
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+204E Conversion

HTML (decimal) ⁎
HTML (hex) ⁎
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E2%81%8E
CSS \00204E
JavaScript, JSON \u204E
C, C++, Java \u204E
Python \u204E
Rust \u{204E}
Ruby \u204E

How to type "⁎"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 2 0 4 E. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 2 0 4 E. Release Alt.

Preview

  • ⁎
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • ⁎
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • ⁎
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0x81 0x8E
UTF-16 (hex) 0x204E
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000204E

References