U+12A6 "ኦ" Ethiopic Syllable Glottal O Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+12A6 "ኦ" Ethiopic Syllable Glottal O is a member of the Ethiopic script block, representing a syllabic unit used in the Geʽez language and modern Ethiopian languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. It signifies the vowel sound "o" combined with a voiced glottal stop or a distinctive release, often serving as the seventh-order form of the glottal consonant series in the abugida writing system. Visually, it resembles a rounded loop with a small horizontal mark below, and it follows the script's left-to-right orientation, contributing to the representation of spoken sounds in liturgical and everyday texts across the Horn of Africa.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12A6 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Glottal O |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ኦ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ኦ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8A 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x12A6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000012A6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u12a6 |