# 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