Star Operator

U+22C6
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character
Decimal ⋆
Hex ⋆

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+22C6
Decimal
8902
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Math Symbol (Sm)
Script
Common
Bidi class
ON Other Neutral
East Asian Width
N Narrow
Properties
Math

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Star Operator.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
⋆
HTML Hex
⋆
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 8B 86
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
22 C6
UTF-32 Hex
000022C6
CSS Escape
\22C6
JavaScript Escape
\u22C6
Python Escape
\u22C6
URL Encoded
%E2%8B%86
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