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Syntactic Symbols

Symbol
Name
Indicates
Unicode
-
hyphen
syllable boundary
U+2D
*
asterisk
morpheme boundary
U+2A
#
number sign
compound nouns
U+23
(
open parenthesis
beginning of prepositional phrase
U+28
)
close parenthesis
beginning of a verb phrase
U+29
,
comma
clause boundaries
U+2C
.
period
period
U+2E
?
question mark
question mark
U+2F
!
exclamation point
exclamation point
U+21
+
plus sign
new paragraph
U+2B

space
word boundary
U+20