U+1260 "በ" Ethiopic Syllable Ba Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
በ
U+1260 "በ" Ethiopic Syllable Ba is a glyph from the Ethiopic script, used primarily for writing the Ge'ez language and modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya in the Horn of Africa. It represents the syllable "ba," which is the first order of the consonant "b" combined with the inherent vowel "ä" in the standard syllabary. This character is a basic building block in the Ethiopic writing system, which is an abugida where each symbol denotes a consonant vowel sequence, and it appears in numerous words and names across the region's historical and contemporary texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1260 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Ba |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | በ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | በ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x89 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1260 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001260 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1260 |