Arabic star

The Arabic star is a punctuation mark added to Unicode 1.1 because the asterisk (*) might appear similar to a Star of David in its six-lobed form (^✻).

The Arabic star is given a distinct character in Unicode, U+066D ٭ ARABIC FIVE POINTED STAR (the note ‘appearance rather variable’ was added in Unicode 5.1), in the range Arabic punctuation.

Variants

In many modern fonts, however, the asterisk is five-pointed, and the Arabic star is sometimes six- or eight-pointed. The two symbols are compared below (the display depends on your browser's font).

Unicode

In Unicode, Arabic and similar stars are encoded at:

• U+066D ٭ ARABIC FIVE POINTED STAR
• U+06DE ۞ ARABIC START OF RUB EL HIZB

In some displays, the use of the ٭ character can cause the text directionality to change.

See also

• Star (glyph)

References

External links

• Windows Programming/Unicode/Character reference/0000-0FFF
• Star Symbol Archived 2021-04-02 at the Wayback Machine

1. List of Arabic star names
2. List of English words of Arabic origin
3. Arabic name
4. List of proper names of stars
5. Five-pointed star
6. Arabic script in Unicode
7. Lists of star names
8. Sirius
9. Stellar designations and names
10. Arabic Kuthu
11. Lists of English words by country or language of origin
12. SS Arabic (1902)
13. SuperStar (Arabic TV series)
14. Star (glyph)
15. Arabic music
16. Lists of stars
17. Star catalogue
18. Lebanese Arabic
19. Kepler's Supernova
20. Alcor (star)