The asterisk was already in use as a symbol in ice age cave paintings. There is also a two-thousand-year-old character used by Aristarchus of Samothrace called the asteriskos, ※, which he used when proofreadin… See more

When toning down expletives, asterisks are often used to replace letters. For example, the word "badword" might become "ba***rd", "b*****d", "b******" or even "*******". Vowels tend to be censored with an asterisk … See more

• Arabic star – Punctuation mark used for Arabic
• Asterism (typography) – Typographic symbol (⁂)
• Dagger (mark) – Symbol († ‡) for footnotes etc… See more