U+12A4 "ኤ" Ethiopic Syllable Glottal Ee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+12A4 "ኤ" Ethiopic Syllable Glottal Ee is a glyph in the Ethiopic script used primarily for writing the Ge'ez, Amharic, and Tigrinya languages, among others. It represents a syllable consisting of a glottal stop followed by the vowel "ee" (a long /e/ sound). In the Ge'ez script's abugida system, this character is part of the consonant series for the glottal stop (ʾ), modified by a diacritic or inherent vowel marking to indicate the specific vowel "ee." It is encoded in the Unicode Ethiopic block (U+1200 to U+137F) and is commonly used in liturgical texts and modern Ethiopian and Eritrean orthographies to denote this particular syllable.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12A4 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Glottal Ee |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ኤ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ኤ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8A 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x12A4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000012A4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u12a4 |