U+124B "ቋ" Ethiopic Syllable Qwaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ቋ
U+124B "ቋ" Ethiopic Syllable Qwaa is a character in the Geʽez script, used historically for liturgical and modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya in the Horn of Africa. It represents the syllable pronounced as "qwaa," formed by the consonant sound /q/ combined with the labialization marker and the vowel /a/. This character belongs to a larger set of syllabic signs derived from the Geʽez abugida, where each modification alters the vowel sound attached to a base consonant. In digital contexts, ቋ is encoded under the Ethiopic block of Unicode, enabling its proper display and exchange in electronic documents and text processing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+124B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Qwaa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ቋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ቋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x89 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x124B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000124B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u124b |