U+1286 "ኆ" Ethiopic Syllable Xo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1286 "ኆ" Ethiopic Syllable Xo is a character in the Ethiopic script, which is used to write the Ge'ez, Amharic, Tigrinya, and other languages of the Horn of Africa. This specific syllable represents the sound "xo," with the base consonant letter "ḫä" (from the Ge'ez abugida) modified by the sixth-order vowel diacritic to produce the /o/ vowel sound. As part of the Ethiopic block in Unicode, it is utilized in modern and historical texts for accurate representation of this particular phoneme in languages like Amharic, where it appears in vocabulary or proper names. The character reflects the complex syllabic structure of the script, where each consonant base combines with a vowel to form a distinct glyph.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1286 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Xo |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ኆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ኆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8A 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1286 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001286 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1286 |