U+1283 "ኃ" Ethiopic Syllable Xaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ኃ
U+1283 "ኃ" Ethiopic Syllable Xaa is a glyph from the Ethiopic script, specifically the Ge'ez abugida, used historically for liturgical texts and currently for modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya in the Horn of Africa. It represents the syllable "xaa" (pronounced with a velar fricative sound similar to the "ch" in the Scottish "loch") and is formed by modifying the base consonant symbol for the sound "x" with a diacritic or inherent vowel marker to indicate the long "a" vowel. This character is part of a larger block of Ethiopic syllables, which are essential for writing and reading various Afroasiatic languages that rely on this script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1283 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Xaa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ኃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ኃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8A 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1283 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001283 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1283 |