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The Unicode character U+2042, officially named ASTERISM, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Punctuation block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.
Categorized technically as a Other Punctuation, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.
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| Nº |
8258
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| UTF-8 |
E2 81 82
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| UTF-16 |
20 42
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| UTF-32 |
00 00 20 42
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| URL-Quoted |
%E2%81%82
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| HTML hex reference |
⁂
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| RFC 5137 |
\u'2042'
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| Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) |
\u2042
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| C and C++ |
\u2042
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| C# |
\u2042
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| CSS |
\002042
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| Excel |
=UNICHAR(8258)
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| Go |
\u2042
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| JavaScript |
\u2042
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| Modern JavaScript (since ES6) |
\u{2042}
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| JSON |
\u2042
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| Java |
\u2042
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| Lua |
\u{2042}
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| Matlab |
char(8258)
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| Perl |
\x{2042}
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| PHP |
\u{2042}
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| PostgreSQL |
U&'\2042'
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| PowerShell |
`u{2042}
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| Python |
\u2042
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| Ruby |
\u{2042}
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| Rust |
\u{2042}
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