U+121A "ሚ" Ethiopic Syllable Mi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ሚ
U+121A "ሚ" Ethiopic Syllable Mi is a symbol from the Geʽez script, which is an abugida used for writing Amharic, Tigrinya, and other languages of the Horn of Africa. It represents the syllable "mi", where the consonant "ም" (m) is modified by a vowel diacritic to produce the sound "i". This character is part of the Ethiopic block in Unicode, introduced to support the digital representation of these historically rich languages. In both ancient and modern contexts, "ሚ" appears in religious texts, literature, and everyday writing, particularly in Ethiopia and Eritrea, serving as a fundamental building block for words related to identity, such as "ሚዜ" (mize, meaning "tomorrow") or "ሚኒ" (mini, meaning "who").
General Properties
| Code Point | U+121A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Mi |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ሚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ሚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x88 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x121A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000121A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u121a |