U+122A "ሪ" Ethiopic Syllable Ri Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+122A "ሪ" Ethiopic Syllable Ri is a character in the Ethiopic script, which is used to write languages such as Amharic, Tigrinya, and Ge'ez. This specific syllable represents the sound "ri," combining the consonant sound "r" with the vowel "i." It belongs to the Ethiopic block within the Unicode standard, where each syllable is a distinct symbol rather than a combination of separate letters. The character is historically rooted in the Ge'ez abugida, where consonants are modified by vowel diacritics to create syllables, and it is commonly employed in modern digital text for East African languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+122A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Ri |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ሪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ሪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x88 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x122A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000122A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u122a |