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eight-pointed black star : U+2734 eight-pointed pinwheel star U+2735 eight-pointed rectilinear black star U+2737 heavy eight-pointed rectilinear black star U+2738 circled open center eight-pointed star U+2742 eight-pointed cuneiform star ð’€: U+1202D rub-el-hizb: Ûž: U+06DE Bamum script (Phase D) ngkyee U+16913
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The asterisk (/ ˈ æ s t É™r ɪ s k / *), from Late Latin asteriscus, from Ancient Greek á¼€στερίσκος, asteriskos, "little star", [1] [2] is a typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a heraldic star.
The star of Inanna usually had eight points, [1] though the exact number of points sometimes varies. [2] Six-pointed stars also occur frequently, but their symbolic meaning is unknown. [3] The eight-pointed star was Inanna's most common symbol, [1] and in later times became the most common symbol of the goddess Ishtar, Inanna's East Semitic ...
The regular octagonal star is very popular as a symbol of rowing clubs in the Cologne Lowland, as seen on the club flag of the Cologne Rowing Association. The geometry can be adjusted so 3 edges cross at a single point, like the Auseklis symbol An 8-point compass rose can be seen as an octagonal star, with 4 primary points, and 4 secondary points.
The eight-pointed star a symbol used in some cultures for Venus, and sometimes combined into a star and crescent arrangement. Here the eight pointed star is the Star of Ishtar , the Babylonian Venus goddess, alongside the solar disk of her brother Shamash and the crescent moon of their father Sin on a boundary stone of Meli-Shipak II , dating ...
Marian star, a six-pointed star used as a Roman Catholic symbol of celestial objects; Rub el Hizb, a common Islamic symbol; alQuds Star, a star representing 'alQuds' (Jerusalem) Haykal, a five-pointed star that represents the Bahá'í Faith; Nine-pointed star, a common symbol of the Bahá'í Faith that represents unity and Bahá’.
These are usually handwritten on the paper containing the text. Symbols are interleaved in the text, while abbreviations may be placed in a margin with an arrow pointing to the problematic text. Different languages use different proofreading marks and sometimes publishers have their own in-house proofreading marks.