U+127B "ቻ" Ethiopic Syllable Caa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+127B "ቻ" Ethiopic Syllable Caa is a symbol from the Geʽez script, which is used to write several languages in the Horn of Africa, most notably Amharic and Tigrinya. This character represents the syllable “caa”, with the consonant sound “ch” as in “change” and the vowel “aa”, which is a longer, open back unrounded vowel. It belongs to a syllabary system where each glyph encodes both a consonant and a specific vowel, and its visual form is distinguished by a characteristic loop and stroke structure common to the Ethiopic abugida. In modern usage, this character appears in printed texts, digital communication, and electronic documents for languages that utilize the Geʽez script, supporting literacy and cultural preservation in Ethiopian and Eritrean communities.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ቻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ቻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE1 0x89 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x127B |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000127B |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u127b |
Unicode Properties