U+A673 "꙳" Slavonic Asterisk Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꙳
U+A673 "꙳" Slavonic Asterisk is a typographic symbol used in early Cyrillic manuscripts, particularly in Old Church Slavonic and other Slavonic liturgical texts, where it functioned as a reference mark or a decorative divider, similar to a modern asterisk. Historically, it appeared as a small, six-pointed or eight-pointed star-like glyph, often placed in margins or between passages to indicate a gloss, commentary, or a section break. Its inclusion in Unicode helps scholars and digital typographers accurately represent medieval Slavic writings, preserving a key element of scribal notation that is distinct from the more common Latin asterisk.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A673 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Slavonic Asterisk |
| Block | Cyrillic Extended-B |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꙳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꙳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x99 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA673 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A673 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua673 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Cyrillic |
| Script Extensions | Cyrillic |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |