Asterism (typography)

Asterism ( other Greek: ἀστερίσκος “ field mark”, “asterisk”, ἀστήρ “star”) is a rarely used typographic symbol consisting of three asterisks arranged in a triangle (⁂). It usually serves to draw attention to a story or to separate sections or episodes in a book . In Unicode, this character has the code U + 2042 ⁂ asterism .

Often this symbol looks like three (and sometimes more ) stars or dots in a row, or an extra indent between paragraphs is used to organize the same separation of subsections from each other. Asterism or its analogues can be used in conjunction with extra indentation to mark sections that are smaller than the subheadings.

Asterism should not be confused with the Unicode character U + 2234 ∴ therefore (from English - “Therefore”), similar to this sign, consisting of three points located in a triangle. This symbol is encoded in the block “Mathematical operators”.