U+1210 "ሐ" Ethiopic Syllable Hha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1210 "ሐ" Ethiopic Syllable Hha is a glyph from the Ge'ez script, used historically for the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. It represents the syllabic sound "hha," a fourth-order syllable in the Ethiopic abugida, distinguished by a specific diacritic modification from the base consonant. In the standard ordering of the script, it belongs to the series of glottal and pharyngeal consonants, though its phonetic realization varies by language, often pronounced as a voiceless pharyngeal fricative or a velar stop. This character is encoded in the Unicode Ethiopic block, ensuring its digital representation for texts, manuscripts, and modern computing needs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1210 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Hha |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ሐ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ሐ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x88 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1210 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001210 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1210 |