U+120E "ሎ" Ethiopic Syllable Lo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Ethiopic
Script Extensions Ethiopic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter