U+1221 "ሡ" Ethiopic Syllable Szu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ሡ
U+1221 "ሡ" Ethiopic Syllable Szu is part of the Ethiopic script block, which is used for writing the Ge'ez language and several modern languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea, such as Amharic and Tigrinya. This character represents a specific syllable in the Ge'ez abugida, where the base consonant "S" is modified by a vowel diacritic to produce the "zu" sound. In standard syllabary ordering, it is classified under the seventh order, corresponding to the vowel "u," and is typically used in historical and liturgical texts, though it may appear in modern transcriptions or borrowed words that require that particular syllable.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1221 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Szu |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ሡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ሡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x88 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1221 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001221 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1221 |