U+1226 "ሦ" Ethiopic Syllable Szo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ሦ
U+1226 "ሦ" Ethiopic Syllable Szo is a symbol used in the Geʽez script, which is the writing system for several languages in the Horn of Africa, including Amharic and Tigrinya. This specific character represents the syllable "szo," a sound that incorporates the consonant "s" and the vowel "o" as transcribed in the Ethiopic syllabary. It belongs to the Ethiopic block of Unicode and is utilized in written forms of these languages to convey precise phonetic values in liturgical, historical, and everyday texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1226 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Szo |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ሦ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ሦ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x88 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1226 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001226 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1226 |