U+120A "ሊ" Ethiopic Syllable Li Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ሊ
U+120A "ሊ" Ethiopic Syllable Li is a character from the Ethiopic script (Geʽez) used for writing the Amharic, Tigrinya, and other languages of the Horn of Africa, representing the syllable "li". It is part of a syllabary system where each base consonant character is modified by diacritic marks or shape changes to indicate different vowels, with the "ሊ" form denoting the vowel sound "i" attached to the consonant "l". This character, along with the rest of the Ethiopic block, was encoded in the Unicode Standard to support digital text processing and preservation of these historically significant African languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+120A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Li |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ሊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ሊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x88 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x120A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000120A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u120a |