U+10387 "𐎇" Ugaritic Letter Zeta Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𐎇

U+10387 "𐎇" Ugaritic Letter Zeta is a cuneiform script symbol used to represent the sound "z" in the Ugaritic language, an ancient Northwest Semitic language spoken in the city of Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra, Syria) during the Late Bronze Age. This character belongs to the Ugaritic alphabet, which is a unique 30-letter consonantal script written from left to right, and its name "Zeta" reflects its connection to the Greek phonetic tradition adapted for Ugaritic studies. The 2010 edition of The Unicode Standard includes this character in the Ugaritic block (U+10380 to U+1039F) as part of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, providing digital support for the scholarly transcription and reproduction of ancient Ugaritic texts, which are crucial for understanding Canaanite religion, literature, and early alphabetic writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+10387
Version Added 4.0
Name Ugaritic Letter Zeta
Block Ugaritic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𐎇
HTML Hex Encoding 𐎇
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x90 0x8E 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD800 0xDF87
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00010387
C/C++/Java Escape \ud800\udf87

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Ugaritic
Script Extensions Ugaritic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter