U+1263 "ባ" Ethiopic Syllable Baa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ባ
U+1263 "ባ" Ethiopic Syllable Baa is a symbol from the Geʽez script used to write the Amharic, Tigrinya, and other Ethiopic languages. In the Geʽez syllabary, which is an abugida, this character represents the syllable "baa," formed by combining the consonant "b" with the vowel "a" that is modified from the basic "ä" sound. It is encoded in the Unicode Ethiopic block (U+1200 to U+137F), which was standardized to support the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and modern African languages, ensuring digital preservation and accessibility for these writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1263 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Baa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ባ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ባ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x89 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1263 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001263 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1263 |