U+1203 "ሃ" Ethiopic Syllable Haa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ሃ
U+1203 "ሃ" Ethiopic Syllable Haa is a glyph from the Ethiopic script, used primarily for writing the Ge'ez language as well as modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya in the Horn of Africa. This character represents the syllable "haa" with a long vowel sound, formed by combining the consonant sound /h/ with the vowel /aː/. It is part of the foundational syllabary that originated from the ancient Ge'ez abjad, where each character denotes a consonant-vowel combination, and it holds cultural and linguistic significance for millions of speakers in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1203 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Haa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ሃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ሃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x88 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1203 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001203 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1203 |