U+229B Circled Asterisk Operator
U+229B was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
This character is a Math Symbol 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+229B forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The CLDR project calls this character “circled asterisk operator” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: asterisk, operator.
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 |
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Nº | 8859 |
UTF-8 | E2 8A 9B |
UTF-16 | 22 9B |
UTF-32 | 00 00 22 9B |
URL-Quoted | %E2%8A%9B |
HTML hex reference | ⊛ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ⊛ |
HTML named entity | ⊛ |
HTML named entity | ⊛ |
LATEX | \circledast |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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1.1 (1993) | |
CIRCLED ASTERISK OPERATOR | |
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Mathematical Operators | |
Math Symbol | |
Common | |
Other Neutral | |
Not Reordered | |
none | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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Yes | |
✘ | |
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✔ | |
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Other | |
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✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Alphabetic | |
none | |
not a number | |
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R |