U+1244 "ቄ" Ethiopic Syllable Qee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1244 "ቄ" Ethiopic Syllable Qee is a glyph representing a syllable in the Geʽez script, which is used to write several Ethiopian and Eritrean languages, including Amharic, Tigrinya, and Geʽez itself. This specific character corresponds to the sound "qee" and is formed by modifying the base consonant particle for "q" (the sixth order) with the appropriate vowel diacritic to indicate the long "e" sound. As part of the Ethiopic block in Unicode, it facilitates accurate digital representation and communication in these languages, preserving their script and phonetic structure for modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1244 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Qee |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ቄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ቄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x89 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1244 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001244 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1244 |