ASCII 42

Asterisk (*)

Printable ASCII

Asterisk / star. Multiplication, wildcards, pointer dereference (C), and emphasis (Markdown).

All encodings at a glance

JavaScript

String.fromCharCode(42); // "*"
42.toString(16); // "2a"

Python

chr(42)           # '*'
ord(chr(42))      # 42
hex(42)           # '0x2a'

HTML

&#42;   <!-- numeric entity (no named entity for this character) -->

39 — '

Apostrophe

40 — (

Left Parenthesis

41 — )

Right Parenthesis

43 — +

Plus Sign

44 — ,

Comma

45 — -

Hyphen-Minus