U+127E "ቾ" Ethiopic Syllable Co Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ቾ
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 |