"*" 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 3 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "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"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "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 3 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "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"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "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": "*"
}