Asterisk Operator symbol

Official name

ASTERISK OPERATOR

Unicode block

Mathematical Operators

Added in

Unicode 1.1

HTML

∗

HTML hex

∗

CSS content

\2217

JavaScript

\u{2217}

UTF-8 bytes

E2 88 97

Keywords

asterisk, operator, star, mathematics, equation, science

Categories

Maths

The Unicode standard defines this character, but your device’s fonts decide how it looks, so it may differ on other screens.