U+12AA "ኪ" Ethiopic Syllable Ki Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+12AA "ኪ" Ethiopic Syllable Ki is a glyph representing a specific syllable in the Ge'ez script, which is used for writing multiple Ethiopian and Eritrean languages including Amharic and Tigrinya. It belongs to the Ethiopic block of Unicode and is derived from the base consonant sound "k" combined with the vowel sign for "i", creating the phonetic value /ki/. This character is an essential part of the abugida writing system where each symbol inherently includes a vowel, and it appears in medieval and modern texts for religious, literary, and everyday communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12AA |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Ki |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ኪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ኪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8A 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x12AA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000012AA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u12aa |