U+1214 "ሔ" Ethiopic Syllable Hhee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1214 "ሔ" Ethiopic Syllable Hhee is a glyph from the Ethiopic script used primarily for writing the Ge'ez language and modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. It represents a syllable pronounced "hhee," derived from the base consonant "ሀ" (he) modified with a specific vowel marking to indicate the "ee" sound. This character belongs to the Ethiopic block of the Unicode standard, which encodes the ancient abugida writing system native to Ethiopia and Eritrea, where each symbol combines a consonant and an inherent vowel.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1214 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Hhee |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ሔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ሔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x88 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1214 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001214 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1214 |