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U+FF0A · FULLWIDTH ASTERISK

Fullwidth Asterisk

  • CodepointU+FF0A
  • NameFULLWIDTH ASTERISK
  • Decimal65290
  • BlockHalfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (U+FF00–U+FFEF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryPo — Other Punctuation
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthF — Fullwidth
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+FF0A (＊) is FULLWIDTH ASTERISK, a punctuation mark in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms 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 fullwidth form of U+002A * (compatibility decomposition <wide>). 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 Fullwidth, so terminals and monospaced layouts give it two columns.

How to type ＊

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8EF BC 8A3 bytes
UTF-16FF0A1 code unit
UTF-320000FF0A4 bytes
HTML decimal&#65290;
HTML hex&#xFF0A;
CSS\FF0Ain content: "…"
JavaScript\uFF0A
JSON\uFF0A
Python\uFF0A
Python\N{FULLWIDTH ASTERISK}by name
Java / C#\uFF0A
C / C++\uFF0Auniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{FF0A}
Go\uFF0A
Ruby\uFF0A
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(65290)
URL-encoded%EF%BC%8Apercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+002A *
NFKDU+002A *
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Nearby in Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms

All in block →
U+FF04＄Fullwidth Dollar Sign U+FF05％Fullwidth Percent Sign U+FF06＆Fullwidth Ampersand U+FF07＇Fullwidth Apostrophe U+FF08（Fullwidth Left Parenthesis U+FF09）Fullwidth Right Parenthesis U+FF0B＋Fullwidth Plus Sign U+FF0C，Fullwidth Comma U+FF0D－Fullwidth Hyphen-Minus U+FF0E．Fullwidth Full Stop U+FF0F／Fullwidth Solidus U+FF10０Fullwidth Digit Zero