Unicode Character 'ASTERISK' (U+002A) |
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| Unicode Data | |
|---|---|
| Name | ASTERISK |
| Block | Basic Latin |
| Category | Punctuation, Other [Po] |
| Combine | 0 |
| BIDI | Other Neutrals [ON] |
| Mirror | N |
| Index entries | star ASTERISK |
| Comments | star can have five or six spokes |
| See Also | arabic five pointed star U+066D asterism U+2042 low asterisk U+204E two asterisks aligned vertically U+2051 combining asterisk above U+20F0 asterisk operator U+2217 sextile U+26B9 heavy asterisk U+2731 slavonic asterisk U+A673 medium six spoked asterisk U+1F7B6 |
| Version | Unicode 1.1.0 (June, 1993) |
| Encodings | |
|---|---|
| HTML Entity (decimal) | * |
| HTML Entity (hex) | * |
| How to type in Microsoft Windows | Alt +002A Alt 042 Alt 42 |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x2A (2a) |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 00101010 |
| UTF-16 (hex) | 0x002A (002a) |
| UTF-16 (decimal) | 42 |
| UTF-32 (hex) | 0x0000002A (002a) |
| UTF-32 (decimal) | 42 |
| C/C++/Java source code | "\u002A" |
| Python source code | u"\u002A" |
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| Java Data | |
|---|---|
| string.toUpperCase() | * |
| string.toLowerCase() | * |
| Character.UnicodeBlock | BASIC_LATIN |
| Character.charCount() | 1 |
| Character.getDirectionality() | DIRECTIONALITY_OTHER_NEUTRALS [13] |
| Character.getNumericValue() | -1 |
| Character.getType() | 24 |
| Character.isDefined() | Yes |
| Character.isDigit() | No |
| Character.isIdentifierIgnorable() | No |
| Character.isISOControl() | No |
| Character.isJavaIdentifierPart() | No |
| Character.isJavaIdentifierStart() | No |
| Character.isLetter() | No |
| Character.isLetterOrDigit() | No |
| Character.isLowerCase() | No |
| Character.isMirrored() | No |
| Character.isSpaceChar() | No |
| Character.isSupplementaryCodePoint() | No |
| Character.isTitleCase() | No |
| Character.isUnicodeIdentifierPart() | No |
| Character.isUnicodeIdentifierStart() | No |
| Character.isUpperCase() | No |
| Character.isValidCodePoint() | Yes |
| Character.isWhitespace() | No |
