U+126A "ቪ" Ethiopic Syllable Vi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+126A "ቪ" Ethiopic Syllable Vi is a glyph from the Ethiopic script, used primarily for writing the Ge'ez, Amharic, and Tigrinya languages, among others in the Horn of Africa. It represents the syllable "vi" and is a member of the Ethiopic block within the Unicode standard, which encodes a writing system that originally developed from the South Arabian script. The character is composed of a base consonant symbol modified by a diacritic to indicate the vowel "i," following the syllabic structure of the script where each character corresponds to a consonant vowel combination.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+126A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Vi |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ቪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ቪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x89 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x126A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000126A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u126a |