U+129F "ኟ" Ethiopic Syllable Nywa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+129F "ኟ" Ethiopic Syllable Nywa is a glyph in the Ethiopic script used to write several languages in the Horn of Africa, including Amharic and Tigrinya. It represents a single syllable pronounced as "nywa," combining the nasal sound "ny" with the vowel "wa," and belongs to a family of characters derived from the Ge'ez abugida, where each symbol inherently carries a vowel sound. This specific syllable is formed by modifying the base consonant character for "ny" with a diacritic or a specific shaping convention to indicate the "wa" vowel, making it an essential component for accurately representing certain words and sounds in these languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+129F |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Nywa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ኟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ኟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8A 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x129F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000129F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u129f |