U+10394 "𐎔" Ugaritic Letter Pu Unicode Character

U+10394 "𐎔" Ugaritic Letter Pu is a cuneiform symbol representing the syllabic sound "pu" in the Ugaritic alphabet, an ancient Semitic script used in the city-state of Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra, Syria) during the Late Bronze Age, around the 14th to 12th centuries BCE. This character is part of the Ugaritic block in Unicode, which was added in version 4.0 of the standard to enable digital encoding of this early writing system, known for its distinctive wedge-shaped marks and its role in recording one of the world's oldest known alphabets. The letter itself corresponds to the sound /p/ followed by the vowel /u/, and it appears in clay tablet inscriptions that have provided valuable insights into ancient Near Eastern language, religion, and literature.

General Properties

Code Point	U+10394
Version Added	4.0
Name	Ugaritic Letter Pu
Block	Ugaritic
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐎔
HTML Hex Encoding	𐎔
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x8E 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD800 0xDF94
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00010394
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud800\udf94

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