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