U+12AF "ኯ" Ethiopic Syllable Koa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ኯ
U+12AF "ኯ" Ethiopic Syllable Koa is a glyph from the Ethiopic script used historically for writing the Ge'ez language and still employed for modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. It represents the syllable "koa" and is part of an extended braille-character-mapped range. This character is used in practices requiring phonetic precision, such as in religious, literary, or linguistic contexts where the specific "koa" sound is needed.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12AF |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Koa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ኯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ኯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8A 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x12AF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000012AF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u12af |