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star equals ≛: U+225B star operator ⋆: U+22C6 APL functional symbol circle star ⍟ U+235F APL functional symbol star diaeresis ⍣ U+2363 black star ★ U+2605 white star ☆ U+2606 star and crescent: ☪: U+262A outlined white star ⚝ U+269D pentagram ⛤ U+26E4 right-handed interlaced pentagram ⛥ U+26E5 left-handed interlaced ...
Miscellaneous Symbols Unicode block Official name Glyph Codepoint HTML Official description Black sun with rays: ☀: U+2600 ☀ Clear weather Cloud: ☁: U+2601 ☁
The 1961 edition used a hollow white star (☆), and the 1984 edition used a row of three asterisks. A dinkus is a typographical device to divide text, such as at section breaks . Its purpose is to "indicate minor breaks in text", [ 7 ] to call attention to a passage, or to separate sub-chapters in a book.
2 Control-D has been used to signal "end of file" for text typed in at the terminal on Unix / Linux systems. Windows, DOS, and older minicomputers used Control-Z for this purpose. 3 Control-G is an artifact of the days when teletypes were in use. Important messages could be signalled by striking the bell on the teletype.
In modern academic writing, the Sun symbol is used for astronomical constants relating to the Sun. [10] T eff☉ represents the solar effective temperature, and the luminosity, mass, and radius of stars are often represented using the corresponding solar constants (L ☉, M ☉, and R ☉, respectively) as units of measurement.
The asterisk (/ ˈ æ s t ər ɪ s k / *), from Late Latin asteriscus, from Ancient Greek ἀστερίσκος, asteriskos, "little star", [1] [2] is a typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a heraldic star.
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These characters allow any polynomial, chemical and certain other equations to be represented in plain text without using any form of markup like HTML or TeX. The World Wide Web Consortium and the Unicode Consortium have made recommendations on the choice between using markup and using superscript and subscript characters: