U+1231 "ሱ" Ethiopic Syllable Su Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ሱ
U+1231 "ሱ" Ethiopic Syllable Su is a character in the Ethiopic script, used primarily for writing the Ge'ez, Amharic, and Tigrinya languages. It represents the syllable "su" and is part of the Ethiopic syllabary system, where each symbol denotes a consonant combined with a specific vowel. This character is derived from the base consonant "ሰ" (sä) with a vowel modification to indicate the "u" sound, and it appears in the Unicode Standard's Ethiopic block, facilitating digital text representation and communication in various Ethiopian and Eritrean languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1231 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Su |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ሱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ሱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x88 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1231 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001231 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1231 |