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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."
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Within Vinony's link graph, tanda bintang is referenced by 765 other articles, and connects out to computer science, question mark and Pascal.
It is catalogued under topics including Ancient Greek punctuation and Punctuation.
Its subject is documented across 57 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Symbol.name
- Asterisk
- Symbol.see also
- ()
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- Unicode code point
- 002A
- Commons category
- Asterisks
- Unicode character
- *
- HTML entity
- *
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode character name
- ASTERISK
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