U+123A "ሺ" Ethiopic Syllable Shi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ሺ
U+123A "ሺ" Ethiopic Syllable Shi is a symbol from the Ge'ez script, used for writing the Amharic, Tigrinya, and other Ethiopian Semitic languages. It represents the syllable "shi," combining a consonant sound with the vowel "i," and belongs to the Ethiopic block of Unicode, which was added to support the digital representation of languages in the Horn of Africa. This character is part of a syllabary system where each shape corresponds to a specific consonant vowel combination, making it essential for accurate text rendering in Ethiopian orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+123A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Shi |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ሺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ሺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x88 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x123A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000123A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u123a |