U+1296 "ኖ" Ethiopic Syllable No Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1296 "ኖ" Ethiopic Syllable No is a glyph from the Ethiopic script, used primarily for writing the Ge'ez, Amharic, and Tigrinya languages, among others. It represents the syllable "no," formed by combining the consonant "n" with the vowel "o." In the Ethiopic abugida system, each character denotes a consonant-vowel pair, and this specific character is part of the systematic set developed to support the script, which has been in use for centuries in the Horn of Africa for liturgical, literary, and everyday communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1296 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable No |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ኖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ኖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8A 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1296 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001296 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1296 |