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Dagger (mark)

A dagger, obelisk, or obelus † is a typographical mark that usually indicates a footnote if an asterisk has already been used. The symbol is also used to indicate death (of people) or extinction (of species or languages). It is one of the modern descendants of the obelus, a mark used historically by scholars as a critical or highlighting indicator in…

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U+271D ✝ LATIN CROSS U+2628 ☨ CROSS OF LORRAINE

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Dagger (mark)

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Avg. degree1.98
Density0.02439
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Dagger (mark) → U+271D ✝ LATIN CROSS U+2628 ☨ CROSS OF LORRAINE
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Dagger (mark) → .mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}U+2020 † DAGGER (†) U+2021 ‡ DOUBLE DAGGER (‡, ‡) U+2E38 ⸸ TURNED DAGGER U+2E4B ⹋ TRIPLE DAGGER

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dagger used obelus asterisk indicate symbols indicates symbol double mark also death footnote variant different one manuscripts notation obelisk usually

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Dagger (mark)Different fromU+271D ✝ LATIN CROSS U+2628 ☨ CROSS OF LORRAINE1.00infobox
Dagger (mark)In Unicode.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}U+2020 † DAGGER (†) U+2021 ‡ DOUBLE DAGGER (‡, ‡) U+2E38 ⸸ TURNED DAGGER U+2E4B ⹋ TRIPLE DAGGER1.00infobox

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