U+1202 "ሂ" Ethiopic Syllable Hi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ሂ
U+1202 "ሂ" Ethiopic Syllable Hi is a symbol from the Ethiopic script, used primarily for writing languages such as Amharic, Tigrinya, and Ge'ez in the Horn of Africa. This character represents the syllable "hi" and is part of a syllabary system where each consonant-vowel sequence has a distinct glyph, with the base consonant "ሀ" (ha) modified by a diacritic or shape change to indicate the vowel "i". In the Ge'ez abugida, "ሂ" is commonly used in religious, historical, and modern digital texts, and its encoding in the Unicode Standard ensures consistent representation across different platforms and devices, preserving the linguistic heritage of Ethiopia and Eritrea.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1202 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Hi |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ሂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ሂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x88 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1202 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001202 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1202 |