U+1284 "ኄ" Ethiopic Syllable Xee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ኄ
U+1284 "ኄ" Ethiopic Syllable Xee is a character in the Ethiopic script used for writing languages such as Amharic, Tigrinya, and Geʽez, representing a specific syllabic unit with the consonant sound "x" (a voiceless velar fricative) and the vowel "ee" (which corresponds to the third-order vowel in the Geʽez abugida, pronounced like the 'a' in "late" or the vowel in "hay" in some language contexts). This character belongs to the Unicode Ethiopic block and is primarily employed in liturgical, literary, and modern digital communication for these languages, where it contributes to the accurate representation of their phonology and script traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1284 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Xee |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ኄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ኄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8A 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1284 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001284 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1284 |