U+1250 "ቐ" Ethiopic Syllable Qha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ቐ
U+1250 "ቐ" Ethiopic Syllable Qha is part of the Ethiopic script block, used primarily for writing the Geʽez language and several modern languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea, such as Tigrinya and Amharic. This specific character represents the syllable "qha," distinguished by the consonant sound /q/ combined with the vowel /a/. It is a member of the first order of the Ethiopic syllabary, where consonant forms are modified by diacritic-like alterations to indicate different vowels. The character is derived from the basic consonantal letter "ሀ" with an added loop or hook to denote the uvular or emphatic nature of the q sound, making it a distinct glyph in the writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1250 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Qha |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ቐ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ቐ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x89 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1250 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001250 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1250 |