U+120E "ሎ" Ethiopic Syllable Lo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ሎ
U+120E "ሎ" Ethiopic Syllable Lo is a symbol in the Ethiopic script, used primarily for writing languages such as Amharic, Tigrinya, and Ge'ez. It represents the syllable "lo," formed by combining the consonant "l" with the vowel "o," and belongs to the syllabary's seventh order of vowel modifications. This character is part of the Unicode Ethiopic block, which encodes the script's historical and modern usage in Ethiopia and Eritrea. As a fundamental building block of written communication in these languages, "ሎ" appears in a wide range of texts, from religious manuscripts to contemporary digital content.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+120E |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Lo |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ሎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ሎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x88 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x120E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000120E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u120e |