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This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters. For other languages and symbol sets (especially in mathematics and science), see below
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.
The bulleted list can be indented further by prepending other asterisks colon ** or two *** or three **** (etc.), for more indentation, each of which creates a new unordered list. Template:Indent and similar templates offer an accessible-friendly means of creating visual indentations without changing the bullet appearance.
the macron (English poetry marking, lēad pronounced / l iː d /, not / l ɛ d /), lengthening vowels, as in Māori; or indicating omitted n or m (in pre-Modern English, both in print and in handwriting). the breve (English poetry marking, drŏll pronounced / d r ɒ l /, not / d r oʊ l /), shortening vowels; the umlaut , altering Germanic vowels
[1] The asterism was originally used as a type of dinkus in typography, though increasingly rarely. [ 2 ] It can also be used to mean "untitled" or author or title withheld – as seen, for example, in some editions of Album for the Young by composer Robert Schumann ( № 21, 26, and 30). [ 3 ]
asterisk operator ∗: U+2217: May be used for the telephone star key: Star of David: : U+2721 six-pointed black star U+2736 Slavonic asterisk ꙳ U+A673 six-pointed star with middle dot/hexagram: 🔯: U+1F52F Vai full stop ꘎ U+A60E full width asterisk ＊ U+FF0A Six spoke asterisk, various weights 🞵🞶🞷 🞸🞹🞺 U+1F7B5 to U+ ...
English Braille, also known as Grade 2 Braille, [1] is the braille alphabet used for English. It consists of around 250 letters , numerals, punctuation, formatting marks, contractions, and abbreviations . Some English Braille letters, such as ⠡ ch , [2] correspond to more than one letter in print.
The 1949 edition of the IPA handbook indicated that an asterisk * might be prefixed to indicate that a word was a proper name, [50] but this convention was not included in the 1999 Handbook, which notes the contrary use of the asterisk as a placeholder for a sound or feature that does not have a symbol. [51]