U+120F "ሏ" Ethiopic Syllable Lwa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+120F "ሏ" Ethiopic Syllable Lwa is a symbol from the Geʽez script, historically used for liturgical and classical Ethiopic languages and now primarily for modern Amharic and Tigrinya. It represents the consonant "l" combined with the vowel "wa," making it a specific syllabic unit within the abugida writing system where each character denotes a consonant-vowel pairing. This character is part of the Ethiopic block in Unicode, which encodes over 300 syllables to support the script's complex set of modifications based on vowel patterns.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+120F |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Lwa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ሏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ሏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x88 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x120F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000120F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u120f |