U+1200 "ሀ" Ethiopic Syllable Ha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ሀ
U+1200 "ሀ" Ethiopic Syllable Ha is the first syllable in the Ge'ez script, representing the sound "ha" as the base form of the letter "hä" used in the Ethiopic family of writing systems. This character is fundamental to the abugida, where each consonant carries an inherent vowel, and it belongs to the Ethiopic block of Unicode, which was added to support languages like Amharic, Tigrinya, and Ge'ez. Historically, "ሀ" originates from the ancient Ge'ez script, which has been in use for over two millennia to write liturgical and modern Ethiopian and Eritrean languages. As a key component of the syllabary, it appears in many words and texts, preserving the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Horn of Africa.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1200 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Ha |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ሀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ሀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x88 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1200 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001200 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1200 |