U+122D "ር" Ethiopic Syllable Re Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ር
U+122D "ር" Ethiopic Syllable Re is a glyph from the Ethiopic script, used primarily for writing the Ge'ez, Amharic, and Tigrinya languages, among others. It represents the syllable sound "re" and is part of a larger set of syllabic characters that form the foundation of the abugida writing system, where each character denotes a consonant base modified by a vowel. This specific character is encoded in the Unicode Standard’s Ethiopic block, which was included to support digital representation and preservation of these historically and culturally significant African languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+122D |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Re |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ር |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ር |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x88 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x122D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000122D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u122d |