U+121B "ማ" Ethiopic Syllable Maa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ማ
U+121B "ማ" Ethiopic Syllable Maa is a symbol within the Ethiopic script block, representing the sound "maa" used in the Geʽez language and modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. It is derived from the base consonant "ም" (me) combined with the vowel diacritic for "a," forming a distinct syllable in the abugida writing system. This character is part of a rich typographic tradition used for liturgical texts and everyday communication in the Horn of Africa, and it is encoded in Unicode to ensure digital representation and interoperability across devices and platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+121B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Maa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ማ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ማ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x88 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x121B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000121B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u121b |