U+1262 "ቢ" Ethiopic Syllable Bi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1262 "ቢ" Ethiopic Syllable Bi is a character from the Ethiopic script, which is used to write languages such as Amharic, Tigrinya, and Ge'ez in the Horn of Africa. This specific character represents the syllable "bi," formed by combining the consonant "b" (approximating the sound of the English letter B) with the vowel "i," a common syllabic structure in this abugida writing system where each character corresponds to a consonant-vowel pairing. "ቢ" is part of a larger set of Ethiopic syllables that are linguistically and culturally significant, enabling the accurate transcription and preservation of these ancient and modern Semitic languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1262 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Bi |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ቢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ቢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x89 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1262 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001262 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1262 |