| Symbol Name | Small Asterisk |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 |
| Unicode | U+FE61 |
| Unicode block | |
| General category | Other Punctuation (Po) |
| CSS Code | \FE61 |
| Hex Code | 0xFE61 |
| HTML Code | ﹡ |
| LaTeX | \text{SMALLASTERISK} |
| Symbol | ﹡ |
| URL encode (UTF-8 percent) | %EF%B9%A1 |
| Spoken / screen reader name | Small Asterisk |
| UTF-8 | EF B9 A1 |
| UTF-16 | FE61 |
| UTF-32 | 0000FE61 |
1\documentclass{article}2\usepackage{pifont}3\text{SMALLASTERISK}4\end{document}You can type the small asterisk symbol on most modern devices with the help of following methods:
Alt + 65121 on Windows (numeric keypad with Num Lock), or insert via Character Map.
Edit → Emoji & Symbols, search "small asterisk", or use Unicode Hex Input with FE61.
Ctrl + Shift + U, type fe61, then Enter (layout-dependent).
Paste from this page, use text replacement, or pick from the emoji keyboard.
Paste from this page or use a keyboard with star and asterisk support.
1span.small-asterisk::before { content: "\FE61"; }1<span>﹡</span>Small Asterisk symbol's representation in different programming languages can be found in the table below:
| Language | Representation |
|---|---|
| JavaScript / TypeScript | '\uFE61' or String.fromCodePoint(65121) |
| Python | '\N{SMALL ASTERISK}' or chr(65121) |
| Rust | '\u{FE61}' |
| C / C++ | UTF-8 source or wchar_t with U+FE61 |
| Go | string(rune(0xFE61)) |
| Ruby | "\u{FE61}" |