Reference Mark
Part of Punctuation and Typography Marks
Reference Mark has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ※
- Unicode
- U+203B
About this symbol
※ is the Japanese reference mark, kome-jirushi, the rice mark, because it resembles the character 米 for rice. Japanese and Korean writing use it the way English uses an asterisk, to point to a note.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- REFERENCE MARK
- Also called
- Japanese kome, Urdu paragraph separator
- Type
- Punctuation
- Unicode block
- General Punctuation
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Related
- ྿ Tibetan Ku Ru Kha Bzhi Mig Can U+0FBF𠂭 U+200AD
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