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,, in the range Arabic punctuation.

Variants

In many modern fonts, however, the asterisk is five- or six-pointed, and the Arabic star is sometimes six- or eight-pointed. The two symbols are compared below.
AsteriskFull-width AsteriskArabic starfive-pointed starsix-pointed stareight-pointed star
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Unicode

In Unicode, Arabic and similar stars are encoded at:
In some displays, the use of the ٭ character can cause the text directionality to change.