U+1038B "𐎋" Ugaritic Letter Kaf Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐎋
U+1038B "𐎋" Ugaritic Letter Kaf is a script symbol from the ancient Ugaritic alphabet, a cuneiform writing system used between the 14th and 12th centuries BCE in the city-state of Ugarit in modern Syria. This particular character represents the consonant sound /k/ and corresponds to the letter "k" in other Semitic alphabets. It belongs to the Ugaritic block of Unicode, which was encoded to support the digital preservation and study of this extinct language. The letter Kaf is typically inscribed as a wedge shaped mark, reflecting the cuneiform writing technique that used a stylus to press symbols into clay tablets, and it is one of thirty characters in the Ugaritic abjad, which is written from left to right.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1038B |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Ugaritic Letter Kaf |
| Block | Ugaritic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐎋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐎋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8E 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDF8B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001038B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udf8b |