U+1285 "ኅ" Ethiopic Syllable Xe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ኅ
U+1285 "ኅ" Ethiopic Syllable Xe is a glyph from the Ethiopic script, primarily used to write the Ge'ez, Amharic, and Tigrinya languages. It represents a specific syllable formed by combining a consonantal sound, typically rendered as a voiceless velar or uvular fricative, with the vowel e, and its shape is derived from the base character ኀ (Ha) with a diacritic modification to indicate the vowel. In the standard Unicode encoding, this character is part of the Ethiopic block, supporting the digital representation of historical and modern liturgical texts as well as everyday communication in the Horn of Africa.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1285 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Xe |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ኅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ኅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8A 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1285 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001285 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1285 |