U+125A "ቚ" Ethiopic Syllable Qhwi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ቚ
U+125A "ቚ" Ethiopic Syllable Qhwi is a character from the Geʽez script, used historically for liturgical and classical Ethiopic languages and still employed today for modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. This specific syllable represents a consonant-vowel combination, where the base consonant is the labiovelar "Qh" sound, and the vowel "wi" is indicated by a diacritic modifier attached to the consonant, reflecting the script's abugida writing system where vowels are shown through modifications to the consonant symbol. As part of the Ethiopic block in Unicode, it facilitates the digital representation of texts in these languages, supporting linguistic diversity and scholarly work in the Horn of Africa.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+125A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Qhwi |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ቚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ቚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x89 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x125A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000125A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u125a |