U+126C "ቬ" Ethiopic Syllable Vee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ቬ
U+126C "ቬ" Ethiopic Syllable Vee is a symbol from the Geʽez script, used primarily for writing the Ethiopic or Geʽez language as well as modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya in the Horn of Africa. It represents the syllable "vee," combining a consonant sound with the vowel "e" as in the English word "bet." This character is part of the Ethiopic block in Unicode, which encodes the ancient abugida writing system where each character typically denotes a consonant-vowel combination, and its design reflects the script's distinctive angular and flowing forms developed over centuries for liturgical and everyday use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+126C |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Vee |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ቬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ቬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x89 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x126C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000126C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u126c |