U+1234 "ሴ" Ethiopic Syllable See Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ሴ
U+1234 "ሴ" Ethiopic Syllable See is a glyph used in the Geʽez script, which is the classical language of Ethiopia and Eritrea and serves as the liturgical script for the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. This character represents the syllable "see," formed from the consonant "ሰ" (sä) combined with the vowel diacritic for "e," and is part of the Ethiopic block of Unicode, which encodes the syllabary used for writing modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures consistent digital representation and interchange of this historically and culturally significant writing system across various platforms and devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1234 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable See |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ሴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ሴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x88 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1234 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001234 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1234 |