Encoding Table
This table shows the exact bytes used to represent HEAVY ASTERISK in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.
| Encoding | Bytes (Hex) | Bytes (Decimal) | Byte count |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9C B1 | 226 156 177 | 3 |
| UTF-16 LE | 31 27 | 49 39 | 2 |
| UTF-16 BE | 27 31 | 39 49 | 2 |
| UTF-32 LE | 31 27 00 00 | 49 39 0 0 | 4 |
| UTF-32 BE | 00 00 27 31 | 0 0 39 49 | 4 |
| ASCII | not supported | ||
| Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) | not supported | ||
| Windows-1252 | not supported | ||
| ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) | not supported | ||
| ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) | not supported | ||
| KOI8-R | not supported | ||
| Shift-JIS | not supported | ||
| EUC-JP | not supported | ||
| GBK | not supported | ||
| Big5 | not supported |
Escape Sequences
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View U+2731 on CharLookup.com ↗UTF-8 Binary Breakdown
UTF-8 encodes this character as 3 bytes. The leading 1110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 3-byte sequence. Bytes 2 and 3 begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.
Unicode Properties
- Unicode Version
- Introduced in Unicode 1.1
- Bidi Class
- ON — Other Neutral