dingbats in English

noun
1
a stupid or eccentric person.
I really appreciated that he walked me though the initial binocular lesson without making me feel like a dingbat .
2
a typographical device other than a letter or numeral (such as an asterisk), used to signal divisions in text or to replace letters in a euphemistically presented vulgar word.
He has been collecting commercial misadventures for some time, and we heartily recommend the orange cone (‘the typographical dingbat of public spaces’) of his own gallery.

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1. What is an Analphabetic symbol? Analphabetic symbols are typographic marks that are not part of the basic character set, and they are better known as dingbats

2. Further enclosed characters can be found in the Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement range, in the Dingbats range (negative Circled one to negative Circled ten) and in the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months range (Circled twenty-one to Circled thirty-five).

3. Enclosed Alphanumerics U+2460 – U+24FF (9312–9471) Optical Character Recognition : Box Drawing: Further enclosed characters can be found in the Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement range, in the Dingbats range (negative circled one to negative circled ten) and in the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months range (circled twenty-one to circled thirty-five).