U+1292 "ኒ" Ethiopic Syllable Ni Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ኒ
U+1292 "ኒ" Ethiopic Syllable Ni is a glyph from the Geʽez script, representing the syllable pronounced as "ni" and used primarily in the Ethiopic and Eritrean languages such as Amharic, Tigrinya, and Geʽez. It is part of the Ethiopic block in Unicode, which encodes the abugida writing system where each character denotes a consonant vowel combination. This specific syllable is formed by modifying the base consonant ነ (nä) with the vowel diacritic for /i/, and it appears in historical religious texts as well as modern digital communication for these languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1292 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Ni |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ኒ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ኒ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8A 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1292 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001292 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1292 |