U+1294 "ኔ" Ethiopic Syllable Nee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1294 "ኔ" Ethiopic Syllable Nee is a symbol used in the Geʿez script, which is the writing system for several languages in the Horn of Africa, including Amharic, Tigrinya, and Geʿez itself. This character represents the syllable "nee" and is part of a larger set of syllabic characters derived from the base consonant "ነ" (na), with a specific diacritic modification to indicate the vowel sound "ee." It is employed in written text to convey this particular phonetic combination, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital platforms and systems can accurately represent and process this syllable for modern communication and preservation of these languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1294 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Nee |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ኔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ኔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8A 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1294 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001294 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1294 |