Dinkus

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Many applications of the dinkus, including those that were common historically, have indicated intentional omission of information.

Newspapers, magazines, and other works can use dinkuses as simple ornamentation of typography, for solely aesthetic reasons.[12] When a dinkus is used primarily for aesthetic purposes, it often takes the form of a fleuron, e.g. ❧, or sometimes a dingbat.^[13] While fleurons, dingbats, and dinkuses are usually distinct, their uses can overlap.

Poetic symbolism

In some cases, the use of a dinkus has been employed in poetry in order to convey non-verbal meaning. This is exemplified in the poem Thresholes by Lara Mimosa Montes, in which the poet makes frequent use of a circular dinkus,  ○ , as a form of "punctuation at the level of the full text, rather than the phrase or the sentence" throughout the course of the work.^[14]

Variations

Many variations of dinkuses are composed partially or entirely of asterisks, although other symbols can be used to achieve the same goals. Some examples include a series of dots,^[15][16] fleurons,^[16] asterisms, straight horizontal lines, and various other figures, such as infinity symbols.^[17] Esperanto Braille punctuation commonly uses a series of colons, ⠒⠒⠒, as a dinkus.

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Other uses of the term "dinkus"

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