Arabic star

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The Arabic star is a punctuation mark and is predominantly used in Arabic countries instead of the asterisk . The original shape of the asterisk with six rays was identified by the Arabs as the Star of David , which is rejected because of the strained Arab-Israeli relations. Then the five-pointed star was introduced and called the Arabian star.

In Unicode, the Arabic star occupies the code point U + 066D. However, it does not have five rays in all pleadings; variants with six or eight rays also occur.

Individual evidence

  1. Persian Asterisk ( Memento from August 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive )