U+1039D "š" Ugaritic Letter Ssu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1039D "š" Ugaritic Letter Ssu is a specific glyph from the Ugaritic alphabet, a cuneiform script that was used to write the Ugaritic language, a Northwest Semitic language known from clay tablets discovered in the ancient city of Ugarit in modern-day Syria. This character represents the sound /sĖ¤/ or a similar emphatic sibilant, and it corresponds to the twenty-sixth letter in the Ugaritic abecedary, where it was employed in documenting religious, economic, and literary texts dating back to the Late Bronze Age. Encoded in the Unicode standard under the category "Letter, Other" and part of the Ugaritic block, it enables modern digital preservation and study of this extinct writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1039D |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Ugaritic Letter Ssu |
| Block | Ugaritic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐎝 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐎝 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x8E 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD800 0xDF9D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001039D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud800\udf9d |