U+2051 Two Asterisks Aligned Vertically
U+2051 was added in Unicode version 3.2 in 2002. It belongs to the block General Punctuation in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+2051 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The asterisk ( *), from Late Latin asteriscus, from Ancient Greek ἀστερίσκος, asteriskos, "little star", is a typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a heraldic star.
Computer scientists and mathematicians often vocalize it as star (as, for example, in the A* search algorithm or C*-algebra). An asterisk is usually five- or six-pointed in print and six- or eight-pointed when handwritten, though more complex forms exist. Its most common use is to call out a footnote. It is also often used to censor offensive words.
In computer science, the asterisk is commonly used as a wildcard character, or to denote pointers, repetition, or multiplication.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8273 |
| UTF-8 | E2 81 91 |
| UTF-16 | 20 51 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 20 51 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%81%91 |
| HTML hex reference | ⁑ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â‘ |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | AC FD |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | AC FD |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 36 AA 31 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 51 2C 7D 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 4F 2C 7D 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 86 FB |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 86 FB |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 3.2 (2002) | |
| TWO ASTERISKS ALIGNED VERTICALLY | |
| — | |
| General Punctuation | |
| Other Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Two Asterisks Aligned Vertically | |
| ✘ | |
| Two Asterisks Aligned Vertically | |
| Two Asterisks Aligned Vertically | |
| ✘ | |
| Two Asterisks Aligned Vertically | |
| Two Asterisks Aligned Vertically | |
| Two Asterisks Aligned Vertically | |
| Two Asterisks Aligned Vertically | |
| Two Asterisks Aligned Vertically | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Two Asterisks Aligned Vertically | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Two Asterisks Aligned Vertically | |
| Yes | |
| Two Asterisks Aligned Vertically | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Two Asterisks Aligned Vertically | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Two Asterisks Aligned Vertically | |
| U |