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U+FE61 · SMALL ASTERISK

Small Asterisk

  • CodepointU+FE61
  • NameSMALL ASTERISK
  • Decimal65121
  • BlockSmall Form Variants (U+FE50–U+FE6F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryPo — Other Punctuation
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthW — Wide
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+FE61 (﹡) is SMALL ASTERISK, a punctuation mark in the Small Form Variants block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a small variant of U+002A * (compatibility decomposition <small>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+002A *. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

Its East Asian Width is Wide, so terminals and monospaced layouts give it two columns.

How to type ﹡

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8EF B9 A13 bytes
UTF-16FE611 code unit
UTF-320000FE614 bytes
HTML decimal&#65121;
HTML hex&#xFE61;
CSS\FE61in content: "…"
JavaScript\uFE61
JSON\uFE61
Python\uFE61
Python\N{SMALL ASTERISK}by name
Java / C#\uFE61
C / C++\uFE61universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{FE61}
Go\uFE61
Ruby\uFE61
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(65121)
URL-encoded%EF%B9%A1percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+002A *
NFKDU+002A *
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Nearby in Small Form Variants

All in block →
U+FE5B﹛Small Left Curly Bracket U+FE5C﹜Small Right Curly Bracket U+FE5D﹝Small Left Tortoise Shell Bracket U+FE5E﹞Small Right Tortoise Shell Bracket U+FE5F﹟Small Number Sign U+FE60﹠Small Ampersand U+FE62﹢Small Plus Sign U+FE63﹣Small Hyphen-Minus U+FE64﹤Small Less-Than Sign U+FE65﹥Small Greater-Than Sign U+FE66﹦Small Equals Sign