"*" meaning in German

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "symbol"
      },
      "expansion": "*",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "German",
  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "symbol",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "German entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "German symbols",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with raw sortkeys",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "friends (of any gender); an officer (of any gender); widower (of any gender)",
          "text": "Freund*innen; ein*e Beamt*er*in; Witwe*r",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "2020 February 23, Alexander Diehl, “Hamburger Küche: Aal kann – muss aber nicht”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN",
          "text": "Aber genauer besehen sind sie in Hamburg ja Lutheraner*innen, und Luther war das Leibliche so fern nun wieder nicht.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the Gendersternchen; Used to separate multiple gendered inflections in gender-neutral writing."
      ],
      "id": "en-*-de-symbol-0hS7L85G",
      "links": [
        [
          "Gendersternchen",
          "Gendersternchen#German"
        ],
        [
          "multiple",
          "multiple#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "gendered",
          "gendered#English"
        ],
        [
          "inflection",
          "inflection#English"
        ],
        [
          "gender-neutral",
          "gender-neutral#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nonstandard) the Gendersternchen; Used to separate multiple gendered inflections in gender-neutral writing."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "raw_tags": [
            "as in Freund_innen"
          ],
          "tags": [
            "nonstandard"
          ],
          "word": "_"
        },
        {
          "raw_tags": [
            "as in Freund/innen"
          ],
          "tags": [
            "nonstandard",
            "proscribed"
          ],
          "word": "/"
        },
        {
          "alt": "as in Mitarbeiter/-innen",
          "word": "/-"
        },
        {
          "raw_tags": [
            "as in FreundInnen"
          ],
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "nonstandard",
            "proscribed",
            "suffix"
          ],
          "word": "capital I in -in"
        },
        {
          "alt": "as in Freunde und Freundinnen",
          "word": "und"
        },
        {
          "roman": "as in männliche und weibliche Freunde",
          "word": "männlich und weiblich"
        },
        {
          "alt": "as in Freunde beiderlei Geschlechts",
          "word": "beiderlei Geschlecht"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "nonstandard"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "*"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "symbol"
      },
      "expansion": "*",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "German",
  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "symbol",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "German entries with incorrect language header",
        "German lemmas",
        "German nonstandard terms",
        "German symbols",
        "German terms with quotations",
        "German terms with usage examples",
        "Pages with raw sortkeys",
        "Requests for translations of German quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "friends (of any gender); an officer (of any gender); widower (of any gender)",
          "text": "Freund*innen; ein*e Beamt*er*in; Witwe*r",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "2020 February 23, Alexander Diehl, “Hamburger Küche: Aal kann – muss aber nicht”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN",
          "text": "Aber genauer besehen sind sie in Hamburg ja Lutheraner*innen, und Luther war das Leibliche so fern nun wieder nicht.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the Gendersternchen; Used to separate multiple gendered inflections in gender-neutral writing."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Gendersternchen",
          "Gendersternchen#German"
        ],
        [
          "multiple",
          "multiple#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "gendered",
          "gendered#English"
        ],
        [
          "inflection",
          "inflection#English"
        ],
        [
          "gender-neutral",
          "gender-neutral#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nonstandard) the Gendersternchen; Used to separate multiple gendered inflections in gender-neutral writing."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "nonstandard"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "as in Freund_innen"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "nonstandard"
      ],
      "word": "_"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "as in Freund/innen"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "nonstandard",
        "proscribed"
      ],
      "word": "/"
    },
    {
      "alt": "as in Mitarbeiter/-innen",
      "word": "/-"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "as in FreundInnen"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nonstandard",
        "proscribed",
        "suffix"
      ],
      "word": "capital I in -in"
    },
    {
      "alt": "as in Freunde und Freundinnen",
      "word": "und"
    },
    {
      "roman": "as in männliche und weibliche Freunde",
      "word": "männlich und weiblich"
    },
    {
      "alt": "as in Freunde beiderlei Geschlechts",
      "word": "beiderlei Geschlecht"
    }
  ],
  "word": "*"
}