U+1039F "𐎟" Ugaritic Word Divider Unicode Character

U+1039F "𐎟" Ugaritic Word Divider is a punctuation mark used in the ancient Ugaritic script, which was a cuneiform alphabet employed for writing the Ugaritic language in the city of Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra, Syria) during the Late Bronze Age, around the 14th to 12th centuries BCE. This character functioned as a small wedge-shaped symbol scribes inserted between words to separate them, acting as a visual boundary that improved readability in texts written in the Ugaritic consonantal alphabet, which lacked spaces between words in its typical continuous writing style. It appears in surviving clay tablets containing mythological, economic, and epistolary texts, making it an essential glyph for philologists and historians deciphering Ugaritic inscriptions, and its inclusion in modern digital systems like Unicode allows for accurate digital representation of these ancient documents.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1039F
Version Added	4.0
Name	Ugaritic Word Divider
Block	Ugaritic
General Category	Other Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𐎟
HTML Hex Encoding	𐎟
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x90 0x8E 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD800 0xDF9F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001039F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud800\udf9f

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	Break After
Script	Ugaritic
Script Extensions	Ugaritic
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Terminal Punctuation	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other