U+127E "ቾ" Ethiopic Syllable Co Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+127E "ቾ" Ethiopic Syllable Co is a symbol from the Ethiopic script, used primarily for writing languages such as Amharic, Tigrinya, and Ge’ez. It represents the syllable "co," combining a specific consonant sound with a vowel, and is part of a larger syllabary system where each character denotes a distinct consonant vowel combination. In the Unicode standard, this character falls within the Ethiopic block, which encodes the ancient and modern writing systems of Ethiopia and Eritrea, and it is typically rendered in printed texts and digital communications to preserve the phonetic and grammatical structures of these languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+127E
Version Added 3.0
Name Ethiopic Syllable Co
Block Ethiopic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ቾ
HTML Hex Encoding ቾ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x89 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding 0x127E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000127E
C/C++/Java Escape \u127e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Ethiopic
Script Extensions Ethiopic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter