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Ancient Greek punctuation

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full stop
punctuation to signal the end of a sentence
asterisk
The asterisk (), , is a typographical symbol that is a stylised image of a star. An asterisk is usually five- or six-pointed in print and six- or eight-pointed when handwritten, though more complex forms exist. Its most common use is to call out a footnote. It is also often used to censor words considered offensive. It is often vocalized as star, especially by computer scientists and mathematicians (as, for example, in the A* search algorithm or C*-algebra).
dagger, obelisk, obelus, long cross, oblong cross (U+2020), typographic mark used to indicate a note call
interpunct
An interpunct ', also known as an interpoint, middle dot, middot, or centered dot', is a punctuation mark consisting of a vertically centered dot used for interword separation in Classical Latin. (Word-separating spaces did not appear until some time between 600 and 800CE.) It appears in a variety of uses in some modern languages.
division sign
mathematical division symbol
overline
{| class="wikitable" style="float:right" |- ! Description || Sample || Unicode || CSS/HTML |- | Overline(markup) | || | style="font-size:75%" | text-decoration: overline; |- | rowspan="2" | Overline(character) | ‾ || U+203E || ‾, ‾ |- | X̅x̅ (combining) || U+0305 || X̅ |- | Double overline(markup) | Xx || | style="font-size:75%" | text-decoration: overline; text-decoration-style: double; |- | Double overline(character) | X̿x̿ (combining) || U+033F || X̿ |- | rowspan="3" | Macron(character) | ¯ || U+00AF || ¯, ¯
coronis
textual symbol
diple
symbol used in margins of Greek manuscripts to draw attention to something in text
Greek orthography
how the sounds of Greek are written in the Greek alphabet