Unicode Character "＊" (U+FF0A)

The character ＊ (Fullwidth Asterisk) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+FF0A. It is encoded in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ＊.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Fullwidth Asterisk
Unicode Codepoint U+FF0A
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
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
Decomposition mapping

U+FF0A Conversion

HTML (decimal) ＊
HTML (hex) ＊
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %EF%BC%8A
CSS \00FF0A
JavaScript, JSON \uFF0A
C, C++, Java \uFF0A
Python \uFF0A
Rust \u{FF0A}
Ruby \uFF0A

How to type "＊"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type F F 0 A. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type F F 0 A. Release Alt.

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xEF 0xBC 0x8A
UTF-16 (hex) 0xFF0A
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000FF0A

References