U+1224 "ሤ" Ethiopic Syllable Szee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ሤ
U+1224 "ሤ" Ethiopic Syllable Szee is a character from the Ethiopic script, specifically representing a syllable used in the Geʽez language and other Ethiopic languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. It is composed of the consonant "ሠ" (sä) combined with the vowel diacritic "ee" to form the sound "szee." This character is part of the Unicode Ethiopic block, which encodes the ancient abugida writing system traditionally used for liturgical texts and modern languages in the Horn of Africa.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1224 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Szee |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ሤ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ሤ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x88 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1224 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001224 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1224 |