U+127F "ቿ" Ethiopic Syllable Cwa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ቿ
U+127F "ቿ" Ethiopic Syllable Cwa is a glyph within the Ethiopic block used for writing the Geʽez script, primarily for languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. It represents a syllable pronounced as "cwa," where the initial consonant sound is a voiceless palatal affricate similar to the English "ch" in "chew," combined with a rounded vowel "wa." This character is constructed by adding a specific vowel modifier to the base consonant sign, reflecting the script's complex syllabic system where each character denotes a consonant-vowel sequence.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+127F |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Cwa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ቿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ቿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x89 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x127F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000127F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u127f |