Asterism
Part of Punctuation and Typography Marks
Asterism has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ⁂
- Unicode
- U+2042
About this symbol
The asterism is three asterisks set in a triangle. Printers once used it to mark a break between sections of a chapter, or to draw attention to a passage. It is rare today, and a row of three spaced asterisks usually does the same job.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- ASTERISM
- Type
- Punctuation
- Unicode block
- General Punctuation
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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