﹡ is the Unicode character SMALL ASTERISK, code point U+FE61 (decimal 65121) in the Small Form Variants block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write ﹡, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes EF B9 A1.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+FE61 |
| Decimal | 65121 |
| UTF-8 bytes | EF B9 A1 |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | FE61 |
| UTF-32 | 0000FE61 |
| HTML decimal | ﹡ |
| HTML hex | ﹡ |
| CSS | \FE61 |
| JavaScript | \uFE61 |
| JSON | \uFE61 |
| Python | \uFE61 |
| Python by name | \N{SMALL ASTERISK} |
| Java, C# | \uFE61 |
| Rust, Swift | \u{FE61} |
| Go, C, C++ | \uFE61 |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %EF%B9%A1 |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | SMALL ASTERISK |
| Code point | U+FE61 (decimal 65121) |
| Block | Small Form Variants (U+FE50–U+FE6F) |
| General category | Po: Other punctuation |
| Script | Common |
| Bidirectional class | ON: Other neutral |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Decomposition
SMALL ASTERISK has a compatibility decomposition (small) to the sequence below. NFKC and NFKD normalisation replace it with that sequence, which can change how text looks, so use them for search, not for storage.
Nearby in Small Form Variants
- ﹙ U+FE59 Small Left Parenthesis
- ﹚ U+FE5A Small Right Parenthesis
- ﹛ U+FE5B Small Left Curly Bracket
- ﹜ U+FE5C Small Right Curly Bracket
- ﹝ U+FE5D Small Left Tortoise Shell Bracket
- ﹞ U+FE5E Small Right Tortoise Shell Bracket
- ﹟ U+FE5F Small Number Sign
- ﹠ U+FE60 Small Ampersand
- ﹢ U+FE62 Small Plus Sign
- ﹣ U+FE63 Small Hyphen-Minus
- ﹤ U+FE64 Small Less-Than Sign
- ﹥ U+FE65 Small Greater-Than Sign
- ﹦ U+FE66 Small Equals Sign
- ﹨ U+FE68 Small Reverse Solidus
- ﹩ U+FE69 Small Dollar Sign
- ﹪ U+FE6A Small Percent Sign
All 26 characters: Small Form Variants.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for ﹡?
- Use ﹡ (decimal) or ﹡ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+FE61?
- EF B9 A1 (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %EF%B9%A1.
- How do I write U+FE61 in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \uFE61. Python: \uFE61.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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