U+123B "ሻ" Ethiopic Syllable Shaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+123B "ሻ" Ethiopic Syllable Shaa is a glyph from the Ethiopic script, specifically within the Geʽez block, used historically for liturgical and modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. It represents the syllable "shaa," pronounced with a /ʃa/ sound, and is formed by a base consonant modified with a diacritic to indicate the vowel "aa." This character is part of a larger set of 40 or more syllable forms derived from the root consonant for "sh," and its standard inclusion in Unicode ensures digital representation and text processing across modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+123B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Shaa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ሻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ሻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x88 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x123B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000123B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u123b |