U+A673 Slavonic Asterisk
U+A673 was added in Unicode version 5.1 in 2008. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Punctuation and is mainly used in the Cyrillic script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+A673 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The asterisk ( *), from Late Latin asteriscus, from Ancient Greek ἀστερίσκος, asteriskos, "little star", is a typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a heraldic star.
Computer scientists and mathematicians often vocalize it as star (as, for example, in the A* search algorithm or C*-algebra). An asterisk is usually five- or six-pointed in print and six- or eight-pointed when handwritten, though more complex forms exist. Its most common use is to call out a footnote. It is also often used to censor offensive words.
In computer science, the asterisk is commonly used as a wildcard character, or to denote pointers, repetition, or multiplication.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 42611 |
UTF-8 | EA 99 B3 |
UTF-16 | A6 73 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 A6 73 |
URL-Quoted | %EA%99%B3 |
HTML hex reference | ꙳ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ꙳ |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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5.1 (2008) | |
SLAVONIC ASTERISK | |
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Cyrillic Extended-B | |
Other Punctuation | |
Cyrillic | |
Other Neutral | |
Not Reordered | |
none | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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Yes | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Other | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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neutral | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Alphabetic | |
none | |
not a number | |
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R |