U+1235 "ስ" Ethiopic Syllable Se Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ስ
U+1235 "ስ" Ethiopic Syllable Se is a symbol from the Ethiopic script, which is used primarily for writing the Ge'ez language and modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya in the Horn of Africa. This character represents the syllable "se" and is part of a larger syllabary system that modifies a base consonant shape with diacritical marks to indicate different vowel sounds. It belongs to the Ethiopic block in the Unicode standard, which was encoded to support digital representation of this historic script that dates back to the first millennium CE.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1235 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Se |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ስ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ስ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x88 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1235 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001235 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1235 |