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  2. Star (glyph) - Wikipedia

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    Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. In typography, a star is any of several glyphs with a number of points arrayed within an imaginary circle. A commonly used star symbol is the asterisk.

  3. Five-pointed star - Wikipedia

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    Five-pointed star. A five-pointed star (☆), geometrically an equilateral concave decagon, is a common ideogram in modern culture. Comparatively rare in classical heraldry, it was notably introduced for the flag of the United States in the Flag Act of 1777 and since has become widely used in flags.

  4. List of symbolic stars - Wikipedia

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    Five-pointed star, a pentagram with internal line segments removed. Lute of Pythagoras, a pentagram-based fractal pattern. Hexagram, a six-pointed star polygon. Heptagram, a seven-pointed star polygon. Octagram, an eight-pointed star polygon. Enneagram, a nine-pointed star polygon. Decagram, a ten-pointed star polygon.

  5. Astronomical symbols - Wikipedia

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    a fish with a star. This is the original symbol from the brief period when this asteroid was known and astronomers were still using iconic symbols. [60] [88] U+1F77A (dec 128890) 🝺 a lyre. This symbol only appears in later 19th-century reference works that appeared when iconic symbols for asteroids had already become obsolete. [45] 12 ...

  6. Asterisk - Wikipedia

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    Look up * or asterisk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The asterisk (/ ˈæstərɪsk / *), from Late Latin asteriscus, from Ancient Greek ἀστερίσκος, asteriskos, "little star", [1][2] is a typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a heraldic star.

  7. Red star - Wikipedia

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    Red star. A New Year tree with a red star in front of a church cupola in Volokolamsk, Russia, 2010. A red star, five-pointed and filled, is a symbol that has often historically been associated with communist ideology, particularly in combination with the hammer and sickle, but is also used as a purely socialist symbol in the 21st century.

  8. Star (heraldry) - Wikipedia

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    The star and crescent symbol is found in flags of states succeeding the Ottoman Empire, which used flags with this symbol during 1793-1923. The twelve stars on the Flag of Europe (1955) symbolize unity. [12] The green five-pointed star on the Esperanto flag (1890) symbolizes the five inhabited continents.

  9. Hexagram - Wikipedia

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    A hexagram (Greek) or sexagram (Latin) is a six-pointed geometric star figure with the Schläfli symbol {6/2}, 2 {3}, or { {3}}. Since there are no true regular continuous hexagrams, the term is instead used to refer to a compound figure of two equilateral triangles. The intersection is a regular hexagon. The hexagram is part of an infinite ...