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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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- Unicode code point
- 002A
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- ASTERISK
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Das Sternchen, auch der Stern, Asteriskus oder Asterisk (*, als Anmerkungszeichen älter auch ※; von spätlateinisch asteriscus, von altgriechisch ἀστερίσκος asterískos, „Sternchen“) ist ein typografisches Zeichen in Form eines kleinen fünf- oder sechsstrahligen Sterns.
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