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Asterisk Operator HTML entity ∗
∗ is the HTML entity for Asterisk Operator ∗ (U+2217). Copy the decimal ∗ and hex ∗ codes plus CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL escapes.
- Entity
∗- Code point
- U+2217
- Unicode name
- ASTERISK OPERATOR
- Block
- Mathematical Operators
- Category
- Math symbol (Sm)
- Since
- Unicode 1.1
- Defined in
- HTML 4.01 and HTML5
Codes to copy
| HTML named | ∗Works in HTML; in XML only & < > " ' are predefined. | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML decimal | ∗Works in HTML and XML. | |
| HTML hex | ∗Works in HTML and XML. | |
| CSS | content: "\2217";In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after. | |
| JavaScript | "\u2217"Also valid in JSON. | |
| Python | "\u2217"Python 3 string literal. | |
| Python by name | "\N{ASTERISK OPERATOR}"Readable alternative using the Unicode name. | |
| URL | %E2%88%97Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value. | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 88 973 bytes. | |
| UTF-16 | 22171 code unit, which is what JavaScript length counts. |
When to use it
∗ writes U+2217 (Asterisk Operator), a maths symbol from the Unicode Mathematical Operators block, encoded since Unicode 1.1. For more than a symbol or two, MathML, supported in all major browsers since 2023, gives proper maths spacing and layout.
The name dates from HTML 4, so it works in every browser and in old email clients.
More maths operators
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All maths operators · Every HTML entity · Encode or decode text
Source: the WHATWG HTML Standard list of named character references and the Unicode Character Database (Unicode 18.0).