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U+FF0A CHARACTER

FULLWIDTH ASTERISK

Quick Facts

Unicode Name FULLWIDTH ASTERISK
Code Point U+FF0A
Decimal Value 65290
General Category Other Punctuation (Po) →
Unicode Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes EF BC 8A
UTF-16 Code Unit FF0A
UTF-32 4 bytes 0000FF0A
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: FF 0A LE: 0A FF
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 FF 0A LE: 0A FF 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal *
HTML Hexadecimal *
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \00FF0A
JavaScript (ES6) \uFF0A
JavaScript (UTF-16) \uFF0A
JSON Escape \uFF0A
Python \uFF0A
PHP "\u{FF0A}"
Java "\uFF0A"
C / C++ "\uFF0A"
Rust '\u{ff0a}'
URL Percent-Encoded %EF%BC%8A

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition <wide> 002A wide
NFC / NFD Forms Compatibility decomposition (<wide>): NFKD/NFKC normalize to equivalent base characters.

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class ONOther Neutral
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+FF0A across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
Context: A * Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
Context: A * Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
Context: A * Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
Context: A * Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name FULLWIDTH ASTERISK

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+FF0A

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