U+122C "ሬ" Ethiopic Syllable Ree Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ሬ
U+122C "ሬ" Ethiopic Syllable Ree is a character in the Geʽez script used to represent the syllable "ree" in languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. It belongs to the Ethiopic block and consists of the consonant "r" combined with the vowel diacritic for "e," forming a distinct glyph that functions as a fundamental unit in writing and reading those languages. This character is encoded for digital text to preserve the linguistic heritage of Ethiopian and Eritrean cultures.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+122C |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Ree |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ሬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ሬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x88 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x122C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000122C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u122c |