U+1297 "ኗ" Ethiopic Syllable Nwa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1297 "ኗ" Ethiopic Syllable Nwa is a glyph in the Ethiopic script used primarily for writing the Amharic and Tigrinya languages. It represents a syllable composed of the consonant "n" combined with the vowel "wa," and it belongs to a broader class of modified syllabic characters derived from the base letter "ነ" (nä) altered with a diacritic or labialization mark. The Ethiopic script is an abugida, meaning each character denotes a consonant-vowel sequence, and U+1297 specifically encodes the "nwa" sound, contributing to the phonetic richness of these languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1297 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Nwa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ኗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ኗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8A 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1297 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001297 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1297 |