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U+066D · ARABIC FIVE POINTED STAR

Arabic Five Pointed Star

  • CodepointU+066D
  • NameARABIC FIVE POINTED STAR
  • Decimal1645
  • BlockArabic (U+0600–U+06FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptArabic
  • CategoryPo — Other Punctuation
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classAL — Arabic Letter
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+066D (٭) is ARABIC FIVE POINTED STAR, a punctuation mark in the Arabic block. It belongs to the Arabic script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a strong right-to-left character (bidirectional class AL), so it sets the direction of the text around it. See bidirectional text.

How to type ٭

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8D9 AD2 bytes
UTF-16066D1 code unit
UTF-320000066D4 bytes
HTML decimal٭
HTML hex٭
CSS\66Din content: "…"
JavaScript\u066D
JSON\u066D
Python\u066D
Python\N{ARABIC FIVE POINTED STAR}by name
Java / C#\u066D
C / C++\u066Duniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{66D}
Go\u066D
Ruby\u066D
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(1645)
URL-encoded%D9%ADpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+002A*Asterisk U+204E⁎Low Asterisk U+2217∗Asterisk Operator U+1031F𐌟Old Italic Letter Ess
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Nearby in Arabic

All in block →
U+0667٧Arabic-Indic Digit Seven U+0668٨Arabic-Indic Digit Eight U+0669٩Arabic-Indic Digit Nine U+066A٪Arabic Percent Sign U+066B٫Arabic Decimal Separator U+066C٬Arabic Thousands Separator U+066EٮArabic Letter Dotless Beh U+066FٯArabic Letter Dotless Qaf U+0670◌ٰArabic Letter Superscript Alef U+0671ٱArabic Letter Alef Wasla U+0672ٲArabic Letter Alef with Wavy Hamza Above U+0673ٳArabic Letter Alef with Wavy Hamza Below