ASCII Character ×
Multiplication signThe multiplication sign, also known as the times sign or the dimension sign, is the symbol ×, used in mathematics to denote the multiplication operation and its resulting product. While similar to a lowercase X (x), the form is properly a four-fold rotationally symmetric saltire.
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ASCII Code for ×
These are the code points for multiplication sign in various character sets| Character Sets | Decimal | Hex |
|---|---|---|
| ISO-8859-1 | 215 | D7 |
| ISO-8859-2 | 215 | D7 |
| ISO-8859-3 | 215 | D7 |
| ISO-8859-4 | 215 | D7 |
| ISO-8859-8 | 170 | AA |
| ISO-8859-9 | 215 | D7 |
| Windows-1250 | 215 | D7 |
| Windows-1252 | 215 | D7 |
| Windows-1254 | 215 | D7 |
| Windows-1255 | 170 | AA |
| Windows-1256 | 215 | D7 |
| Windows-1257 | 215 | D7 |
| Windows-1258 | 215 | D7 |
Unicode for ×
The character for multiplication sign is mapped in Unicode as U+00D7| Unicode | U+00D7 | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode Decimal | 215 | |
| Unicode Escape | \u00d7 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xC3 0x97 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 1100001110010111 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | ||
| 1100001110010111 | ||
| UTF-16 | 0x00D7 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x000000D7 | |
HTML Entities for ×
The following HTML entities can be used to represent the multiplication sign in HTML| HTML Number | × | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML Hex | × | |
| HTML Entity | × | |
Related characters
| Symbol | Name |
|---|---|
| * | Asterisk |
| + | Plus |
| / | Slash or divide |
| < | Less than (or open angled bracket) |
| = | Equals |
| > | Greater than (or close angled bracket) |
| ÷ | Division sign |
Encoding
Encoding non-standard letters and characters into values that can be displayed e.g. in browsers| URL Escape Code | %C3%97 | |
|---|---|---|
| Quoted-printable | =C3=97 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u00D7" | |
|---|---|---|
| CSS Code | \00D7 | |
| JavaScript | "\u00D7" | |
| Perl | \x{00D7} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u00D7" | |
| Python 3 | \u00D7 | |
| Ruby | \u{00D7} |