U+1215 "ሕ" Ethiopic Syllable Hhe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ሕ
U+1215 "ሕ" Ethiopic Syllable Hhe is part of the Ethiopic block used for writing the Ge'ez language, as well as modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya in the Horn of Africa. This particular character represents a syllable consisting of a glottal or pharyngeal fricative consonant sound combined with the vowel 'e' (the fourth order in the Ethiopian syllabary), making it a distinct phonetic unit in these scripts. Its design follows the ancient Sabaean-derived script tradition, featuring a distinctive angular shape with a curved top and a vertical stem extending downwards.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1215 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Hhe |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ሕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ሕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x88 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1215 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001215 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1215 |