Asterism

⁂

The character ⁂ is a rarely used punctuation mark consisting of three asterisks arranged in a triangle. In the German version of Microsoft Windows (Vista, as of July 2012) the system application "Character table" shows the name asterisk group ; otherwise a German name for the sign is not known. The (English) Unicode name is Asterism for asterism . Unicode contains ⁂ at code point U + 2042.

The symbol is used to mark a sub-chapter in a text. Because of its rarity, three consecutive asterisks (***) are often used instead of this character. The markup language HTML instead uses the hash sign (#) as a jump label for anchor .

⁂ should not be confused with the symbol ∴ (three dots in the same order) used in mathematical proofs , which is used to indicate a logical consequence .

In the Album für die Jugend , Opus 68, by Robert Schumann , this symbol can be found above tracks Nos. 21, 26 and 30 instead of a title.

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• Torbjörn Lundmark: Quirky qwerty. the story of the keyboard @ your fingertips. University of New South Wales Press, Sydney 2002, ISBN 0-86840-436-5 .
• Unicode character 'ASTERISM'