U+1205 "ህ" Ethiopic Syllable He Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ህ
U+1205 "ህ" Ethiopic Syllable He is a character from the Geʽez script, used historically for liturgical languages like Geʽez and modern languages such as Amharic and Tigrinya in the Horn of Africa. This specific character represents the syllable "he," formed from the base consonant "h" combined with the vowel "e," and it belongs to the first order of the Ethiopic syllabary, where each character is modified by attaching vowel diacritics. In Ethiopian cultural contexts, U+1205 appears in religious texts, literature, and everyday writing, embodying a key part of the ancient script's system of syllabic representation that has remained largely unchanged for centuries.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1205 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable He |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ህ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ህ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x88 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1205 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001205 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1205 |