File:Asteriskos.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
The asterisk (*) is a star-shaped symbol used in writing and printing, typically appearing with five to eight points depending on whether it's typed or handwritten. It serves practical purposes like marking footnotes, censoring offensive language, and in mathematics and computer science where it's often spoken aloud as "star."
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 765 inbound references to astérisque, and connects out to computer science, question mark and Pascal.
Vinony files it under Ancient Greek punctuation and Punctuation.
Vinony links it to 57 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Symbol.name
- Asterisk
- Symbol.see also
- ()
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
Show 7 more facts
- Unicode code point
- 002A
- Commons category
- Asterisks
- Unicode character
- *
- HTML entity
- *
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode character name
- ASTERISK
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
via Wikidata · CC0
Article · Français
Un astérisque (nom masculin, du latin médiéval asteriscus, qui vient lui-même du grec ancien ἀστερίσκος, asterískos, « petite étoile ») est un symbole typographique ressemblant à une étoile : « * ». En typographie, on parle d’astérisme pour désigner trois astérisques formant un triangle : « ⁂ ».
Abstract from DBpedia / Wikipedia · CC BY-SA