EDIT Punctuation The Arabic Five Pointed Star is equivalent to the Asterisk (U+002A).

The five-pointed shape (which is also found for the asterisk in various fonts like Arial Unicode) has two possible reasons. One of them would be that the six-pointed Asterisk would often not print clearly and hence often was replaced by a five-pointed star. Another reason often claimed is that with the deteriorating relations between Arabic and Israeli people the Arabs wouldn’t buy typewriters with the Asterisk a sone of the letters anymore because its shape is reminiscent of the shape of the Star of David.
 
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ASTERISK
U+002A
ASTERISK
LOW ASTERISK
U+204E
LOW ASTERISK
BLACK STAR
U+2605
BLACK STAR
WHITE STAR
U+2606
WHITE STAR
STAR OF DAVID
U+2721
STAR OF DAVID
STRESS OUTLINED WHITE STAR
U+2729
STRESS OUTLINED WHITE STAR
CIRCLED WHITE STAR
U+272A
CIRCLED WHITE STAR
SHADOWED WHITE STAR
U+2730
SHADOWED WHITE STAR
SIX POINTED BLACK STAR
U+2736
SIX POINTED BLACK STAR
01 CODE POINT VALUE: : : : : 066D
02 NAME (UNICODE NAME) : : : ARABIC FIVE POINTED STAR
03 GENERAL CATEGORY: : : : : Punctuation, Other
04 COMBINING CLASS : : : : : Spacing, split, enclosing, reordrant, and Tibetan subjoined
05 BIDIRECTIONAL CATEGORY: : Right-to-Left Arabic
06 DECOMPOSITION MAPPING : : -
07 DECIMAL DIGIT VALUE : : : -
08 DIGIT VALUE : : : : : : : -
09 NUMERIC VALUE : : : : : : -
10 MIRRORED: : : : : : : : : No
11 UNICODE 1.0 NAME: : : : : ARABIC FIVE POINTED STAR
12 ISO 10646 COMMENT FIELD : -
 
13  UPPERCASE MAPPING : : : : -
14 LOWERCASE MAPPING : : : : -
15 TITLECASE MAPPING : : : : -
16 DECIMAL VALUE : : : : : : 1645
17 UTF-8 HEX VALUE : : : : : 0xD9AD
18 UTF-16 HEX VALUE: : : : : 0x066D
19 UTF-32 HEX VALUE: : : : : 0x0000066D
20 XHTML : : : : : : : : : : &#1645
21 BLOCK : : : : : : : : : : Arabic
22 PLANE : : : : : : : : : : Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
23 STROKE NUMBER : : : : : : -
24 RADICAL : : : : : : : : : -
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U+066D ARABIC FIVE POINTED STAR
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