U+1212 "ሒ" Ethiopic Syllable Hhi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ሒ
U+1212 "ሒ" Ethiopic Syllable Hhi is a glyph from the Ethiopic script, used primarily for writing languages such as Amharic and Tigrinya, and represents a specific syllabic sound, a voiced velar implosive or a similar consonant pronounced with an "ee" vowel. This character belongs to the Ethiopic block of Unicode, which encodes the ancient abugida writing system originally developed for the Geʽez language, where each symbol denotes a consonant plus an inherent vowel modified by diacritic marks. The syllable "ሒ" is the fourth order form of the consonant "ሐ" (Hha), with the vowel marker indicating the pronunciation of the /i/ or /ee/ sound, distinguishing it from other Hha-based syllables through a subtle change in the base character's shape.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1212 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Hhi |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ሒ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ሒ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x88 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1212 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001212 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1212 |