U+FF0A Fullwidth Asterisk
U+FF0A was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is a wide version of the glyph Asterisk. Accordingly, its width in East Asian Text is fullwidth. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+FF0A offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
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 | 65290 |
| UTF-8 | EF BC 8A |
| UTF-16 | FF 0A |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 FF 0A |
| URL-Quoted | %EF%BC%8A |
| HTML hex reference | ＊ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ＊ |
| Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes) | A1 AF |
| Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) | A1 AF |
| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | 81 96 |
| Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | A3 AA |
| Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) | A1 AF |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | A1 F6 |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A1 F6 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A1 F6 |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | A3 AA |
| Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) | A3 AA |
| Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) | A3 AA |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | A3 AA |
| Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) | 7E 7B 23 2A 7E 7D |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 76 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 76 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 76 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 76 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 76 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 76 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 1B 24 29 43 0E 23 2A 0F |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | DA 3A |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | 81 96 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 81 96 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 81 96 |
| Adobe Glyph List | asteriskmonospace |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| FULLWIDTH ASTERISK | |
| — | |
| Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms | |
| Other Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| wide | |
| Asterisk | |
| ✘ | |
| Fullwidth Asterisk | |
| Fullwidth Asterisk | |
| ✘ | |
| Fullwidth Asterisk | |
| Fullwidth Asterisk | |
| Fullwidth Asterisk | |
| Fullwidth Asterisk | |
| Fullwidth Asterisk | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Fullwidth Asterisk | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Asterisk | |
| No | |
| Asterisk | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Fullwidth Asterisk | |
| None | |
| fullwidth | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ideographic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Fullwidth Asterisk | |
| U |