Ugaritic Word Divider

It marks a boundary between written Ugaritic units.

Ugaritic alphabetic cuneiform was used at Ras Shamra, the ancient city of Ugarit. Its surviving corpus is generally dated to the 14th–13th centuries BCE. Scribes pressed its alphabetic signs into clay as wedges. The compact, mostly consonant-based writing system developed at Ugarit from an older alphabetic tradition; the divider helped readers parse the text.

Why is it not always a clean word break?

Because the wedge marks a scribal boundary, not a modern space.

It usually appears between words, but scribes did not use it mechanically: short attached particles could be handled inconsistently. In some administrative records, dividers also organize syntax or ledger-like columns.

Ugaritic belongs to the Northwest Semitic alphabetic tradition. Its letter order is closely related to Phoenician and other Semitic systems.

How do I use the actual character?

Use 𐎟 in Ugaritic text; use a period in transliteration.

A period in scholarly transliteration represents the boundary but changes the transcription, not the original sign. Font support affects how 𐎟 appears: a font may show a missing-glyph box or draw the wedge differently, while the character stays the same.