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FULLWIDTH ASTERISK character


Name:
FULLWIDTH ASTERISK
Hex Number:
U+FF0A
Decimal Number:
65290
HTML Entity (Dec):
*
HTML Entity (Hex):
*
Category:
Po (Other Puntuation)
Bidi Class:
ON (Other Neutrals)
Mirrored:
N
Combining Class:
0
Unicode Block:
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
Plane:
0
Plane Code:
BMP
Plane Description:
Basic Multilingual Plane
Plane Range:
0000-FFFF
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FULLWIDTH ASTERISK is a punctuation mark of other type from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of FULLWIDTH ASTERISK is Other Neutrals (Neutral). It belongs to the neutrals. Whitespace and punctuation, which take on the directionality of the surrounding text..

The Other Neutral (ON) bidi class includes characters that do not have a strong directional preference and can appear in any text context without influencing the overall directionality. These characters include punctuation marks, symbols, and various other text elements that do not fit into more specific bidi classes.

Other Punctuation (Po) refers to all other punctuation marks that do not fit into the connector, dash, open, close, initial, or final categories. This includes characters like the period, comma, colon, and various other symbols used to structure sentences and phrases.

This character belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block. The Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block contains characters that are variants of standard characters, designed to be used in East Asian typography. Halfwidth forms are narrower versions of characters, while fullwidth forms are wider, designed to fit the grid layout used in East Asian text. This block is essential for proper rendering of text in languages like Japanese and Chinese, where halfwidth and fullwidth characters are commonly used in digital typography to achieve the desired visual effect..





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