U+126F "ቯ" Ethiopic Syllable Vwa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ቯ
U+126F "ቯ" Ethiopic Syllable Vwa is a glyph in the Ethiopic script used to represent the syllable sound "vwa" in the Ge'ez, Amharic, and Tigrinya languages, among others. It is part of the Unicode block that encodes the Ethiopic syllabary, which organizes consonants combined with vowel modifications. This particular character is derived from the base consonant "ቨ" (Va) modified with a sixth-order vowel diacritic to produce the "wa" sound, extending the script's ability to represent foreign or non-native phonetic elements. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures digital representation and interoperability of this syllable across modern computing platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+126F |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Vwa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ቯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ቯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x89 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x126F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000126F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u126f |