U+20F0 "⃰" Combining Asterisk Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+20F0 "⃰" Combining Asterisk Above is a combining diacritical mark that is designed to be placed over a preceding base character, such as a letter, in order to modify its meaning or pronunciation. Distinct from a standard asterisk symbol, this character is used primarily in linguistic and academic contexts, including in some notations for Indo-European and Proto-Semitic reconstructions, where it can denote a reconstructed phoneme or a specific phonetic feature. When rendered properly in supported fonts, it appears as a small, star-shaped glyph positioned above the baseline, and it relies on its preceding character for correct visual alignment within text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+20F0 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Combining Asterisk Above |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⃰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⃰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x83 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x20F0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000020F0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u20f0 |