U+1233 "ሳ" Ethiopic Syllable Saa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1233 "ሳ" Ethiopic Syllable Saa is a glyph in the Ethiopic script, which is used primarily for writing the Ge'ez, Amharic, Tigrinya, and other languages of the Horn of Africa. This particular character represents the syllable "saa," combining the consonant sound "s" with the vowel "aa," and it is part of a larger syllabary system that modifies base consonant symbols with vowel marks. In Unicode, it belongs to the Ethiopic block, which encodes the traditional script's inventory of syllables, punctuation, and numerals. The character is commonly employed in modern digital text to represent the corresponding syllable in languages like Amharic, where it is used in everyday writing, literature, and official documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1233 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Saa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ሳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ሳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x88 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1233 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001233 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1233 |