U+1228 "ረ" Ethiopic Syllable Ra Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ረ
U+1228 "ረ" Ethiopic Syllable Ra is a character from the Ethiopic script, which is historically used for writing Ge'ez, Amharic, Tigrinya, and other languages of the Horn of Africa. It represents the syllable "ra," combining the consonant sound "r" with the inherent vowel "ä." In the Unicode standard, it belongs to the Ethiopic block, and its visual form is a distinctive cursive symbol typical of the abugida writing system, where each character denotes a consonant-vowel combination. This character is utilized in modern digital text processing to enable accurate representation and communication in several Afro-Asiatic languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1228 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Ra |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ረ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ረ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x88 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1228 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001228 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1228 |