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Technical information

Symbol＊
NameFullwidth asterisk
Unicode numberU+FF0A
CategoryAsteriskFullwidth ASCII variants
DescriptionThe Unicode character ＊, or U+FF0A, is known as "Fullwidth Asterisk". It belongs to the "Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms" block and is categorized under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a variant of the standard asterisk (*) but is given fullwidth, meaning it occupies the same amount of horizontal space as other characters in East Asian typography. While it carries the same meaning as the regular asterisk, it is used specifically in the context of East Asian fullwidth text, where characters are usually square and occupy the same amount of space.

Encoding

HTML Entity＊
HTML Entity (hex)＊
URL Escape Code%EF%BC%8A
UTF-8 (hex)0xEF 0xBC 0x8A
UTF-8 (binary)11101111:10111100:10001010
UTF-160xFF0A
UTF-320x0000FF0A

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\uFF0A"
CSS Code\FF0A
JavaScript"\uFF0A"
Perl\x{FF0A}
Python 2u"\uFF0A"
Python 3\uFF0A
Ruby\u{FF0A}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ＊ in sentence and in bold like this ＊ and in italic like this ＊.

Font size:

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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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100
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200
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300
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400
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500
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600
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700
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800
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900

HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
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input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#65290;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\FF0A";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana

References