U+204E "⁎" Low Asterisk Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+204E "⁎" Low Asterisk is a typographic symbol that appears as a small star or asterisk positioned lower on the baseline than the standard asterisk, and it is often used in scholarly or mathematical contexts to denote a footnote, reference, or multiplication, especially when a less obtrusive or more vertically aligned glyph is needed compared to the typical raised asterisk.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+204E |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Low Asterisk |
| Block | General Punctuation |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⁎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⁎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x81 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x204E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000204E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u204e |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |