U+12A1 "ኡ" Ethiopic Syllable Glottal U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+12A1 "ኡ" Ethiopic Syllable Glottal U is a glyph in the Ethiopic block of the Unicode standard, used for writing the Geʽez language and other Ethiopic scripts such as Amharic and Tigrinya. This character represents a syllable consisting of a glottal stop consonant combined with the vowel 'u', functioning as a basic unit in the abugida writing system where each sign denotes a consonant-vowel sequence. The character's shape is derived from the base consonant symbol for a glottal stop (አ) modified with a diacritic or stroke to indicate the following 'u' vowel sound. It is part of a larger set of syllabic characters that allow the written representation of the distinct phonetic nuances in Ethiopic languages, and it is typically used in liturgical and modern texts to maintain accurate pronunciation.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ኡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ኡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE1 0x8A 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x12A1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000012A1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u12a1 |
Unicode Properties