U+1209 "ሉ" Ethiopic Syllable Lu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ሉ
U+1209 "ሉ" Ethiopic Syllable Lu is a character in the Ethiopic script used primarily for writing the Geʽez language, as well as modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya in the Horn of Africa. This character represents the syllable "lu," which is one of the many syllabic glyphs in the Ethiopic abugida where each character corresponds to a consonant base combined with a vowel. The letter is part of a well defined set of syllabic forms derived from the base consonant "l" and the vowel "u," and it appears in historical religious texts as well as contemporary digital communication and computing, having been encoded in the Unicode Standard to support the preservation and digital use of the Ethiopic writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1209 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Lu |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ሉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ሉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x88 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1209 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001209 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1209 |