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U+204E · LOW ASTERISK

Low Asterisk

CodepointU+204E
NameLOW ASTERISK
Decimal8270
BlockGeneral Punctuation (U+2000–U+206F)
Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
ScriptCommon
CategoryPo — Other Punctuation
Unicode version3.2 (2002)
Bidi classON — Other Neutral
Combining class0
East Asian widthN — Neutral
MirroredNo

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →

UTF-8	`E2 81 8E`	3 bytes
UTF-16	`204E`	1 code unit
UTF-32	`0000204E`	4 bytes
HTML decimal	`⁎`
HTML hex	`⁎`
CSS	`\204E`	in content: "…"
JavaScript	`\u204E`
JSON	`\u204E`
Python	`\u204E`
Python	`\N{LOW ASTERISK}`	by name
Java / C#	`\u204E`
C / C++	`\u204E`	universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP	`\u{204E}`
Go	`\u204E`
Ruby	`\u204E`
Excel / Sheets	`=UNICHAR(8270)`
URL-encoded	`%E2%81%8E`	percent-encoded UTF-8

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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+002A*Asterisk U+066D٭Arabic Five Pointed Star U+2217∗Asterisk Operator U+1031F𐌟Old Italic Letter Ess

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