¶PunctuationPunctuationBasic LatinReviewed 2026-08-08

ASTERISK

Asterisk, the ASCII star used for footnotes, wildcards, and multiplication.

U+002A · 15.1.0 · Common script

About this character

The asterisk marks footnotes, glob patterns, and multiplication in some notation systems. It is a Basic Latin character shared with ASCII.

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UTF-82A
UTF-16002A
HTML* / *
CSS\00002A
JavaScript\u002a
Python\u002a
URL%2A

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