U+128C "ኌ" Ethiopic Syllable Xwee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ኌ
U+128C "ኌ" Ethiopic Syllable Xwee is part of the Ethiopic block, used for writing languages such as Amharic and Tigrinya in the Geʽez script. It represents a specific syllable formed by the consonant "ḫ" (or a similar velar or uvular sound) combined with the vowel "wee," and is a less common character in modern usage. This syllabary system, which originated for the liturgical Geʽez language, assigns each distinct consonant vowel combination its own unique glyph, with "ኌ" being one such representation in the standard Unicode encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+128C |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Xwee |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ኌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ኌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8A 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x128C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000128C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u128c |