Arabic star
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Arabic star |
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| Punctuation |
| apostrophe |
( ’ ' ) |
| brackets |
( [ ], ( ), { }, ⟨ ⟩ ) |
| colon |
( : ) |
| comma |
( , ) |
| dash |
( ‒, –, —, ― ) |
| ellipsis |
( …, ..., . . . ) |
| exclamation mark |
( ! ) |
| full stop/period |
( . ) |
| guillemets |
( « » ) |
| hyphen |
( ‐ ) |
| hyphen-minus |
( - ) |
| question mark |
( ? ) |
| quotation marks |
( ‘ ’, “ ”, ' ', " " ) |
| semicolon |
( ; ) |
| slash/stroke |
( / ) |
| solidus |
( ⁄ ) |
| Word dividers |
| space |
( ) ( ) ( ) (␠) (␢) (␣) |
| interpunct |
( · ) |
| General typography |
| ampersand |
( & ) |
| at sign |
( @ ) |
| asterisk |
( * ) |
| backslash |
( \ ) |
| bullet |
( • ) |
| caret |
( ^ ) |
| dagger |
( †, ‡ ) |
| degree |
( ° ) |
| ditto mark |
( 〃 ) |
| inverted exclamation mark |
( ¡ ) |
| inverted question mark |
( ¿ ) |
| number sign/pound/hash/octothorpe |
( # ) |
| numero sign |
( № ) |
| obelus |
( ÷ ) |
| ordinal indicator |
( º, ª ) |
| percent etc. |
( %, ‰, ‱ ) |
| pilcrow |
( ¶ ) |
| prime |
( ′, ″, ‴ ) |
| section sign |
( § ) |
| tilde |
( ~ ) |
| underscore/understrike |
( _ ) |
| vertical/broken bar, pipe |
( ¦, | ) |
| Intellectual property |
| copyright symbol |
( © ) |
| registered trademark |
( ® ) |
| sound recording copyright |
( ℗ ) |
| service mark |
( ℠ ) |
| trademark |
( ™ ) |
| Currency |
| currency (generic) |
( ¤ ) |
| currency (specific) |
| ( ₳ ฿ ₵ ¢ ₡ ₢ ₠ $ ₫ ৳ ₯ € ƒ ₣ ₲ ₴ ₭ ℳ ₥ ₦ ₧ ₱ ₰ £ ₹ ₨ ₪ ₸ ₮ ₩ ¥ ៛ ) |
| Uncommon typography |
| asterism |
( ⁂ ) |
| tee |
( ⊤ ) |
| up tack |
( ⊥ ) |
| index/fist |
( ☞ ) |
| therefore sign |
( ∴ ) |
| because sign |
( ∵ ) |
| interrobang |
( ‽ ) |
| irony punctuation |
( ؟ ) |
| lozenge |
( ◊ ) |
| reference mark |
( ※ ) |
| tie |
( ⁀ ) |
| Related |
| diacritical marks |
| whitespace characters |
| non-English quotation style |
( « », „ ” ) |
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- For stars with Arabic names, see List of Arabic star names.
The Arabic star is a punctuation mark developed to be distinct from the asterisk (*). The asterisk had existed in feudal times, and the original shape of the asterisk was six-pointed, each point like a teardrop coming from the center. However, some typewriters had difficulty printing the six arms distinctly.
The Arabic star is given a distinct character in Unicode, U+066D ٭ arabic five pointed star (HTML: ٭ with the note "Appearance rather variable"), in the range Arabic punctuation.[1]
In many modern fonts, however, the asterisk is five-pointed, and the Arabic star is sometimes six- or eight-pointed. The two symbols are compared below (the display depends on your browser's font).
| Asterisk |
Full-width Asterisk |
Arabic star |
five-pointed star |
six-pointed star |
eight-pointed star |
| * |
＊ |
٭ |
★ |
✶ |
✴ |
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