The Arabic star is a punctuation mark developed to be distinct from the asterisk (*). The asterisk had existed in feudal times, and the original shape of the asterisk was six-pointed, each point like a teardrop coming from the center. However, some typewriters had difficulty printing the six arms distinctly.
The Arabic star is given a distinct character in Unicode, U+066D ٭ arabic five pointed star (HTML: ٭ noted: "Appearance rather variable"), in the range Arabic punctuation.
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Famous quotes containing the word star:
“A brush had left a crooked stroke
Of what was either cloud or smoke
From north to south across the blue;
A piercing little star was through.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)