U+1276 "ቶ" Ethiopic Syllable To Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ቶ
U+1276 "ቶ" Ethiopic Syllable To is part of the Ethiopic script block, used primarily for writing the Ge'ez, Amharic, and Tigrinya languages. This character represents the syllable "to," combining the consonant sound 't' with the vowel 'o' as indicated by the diacritic attached to the base consonant. It belongs to the fourth-order vowel series in the Ge'ez syllabary, where modifications to a consonant symbol denote different accompanying vowels. In modern usage, "ቶ" is frequently encountered in Ethiopian and Eritrean texts, appearing in words like "ቶሎ" meaning quickly, and it plays a key role in both liturgical and everyday written communication in the Horn of Africa.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1276 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable To |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ቶ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ቶ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x89 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1276 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001276 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1276 |