U+12BA "ኺ" Ethiopic Syllable Kxi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ኺ
U+12BA "ኺ" Ethiopic Syllable Kxi is a symbol from the Ethiopic script, specifically representing the syllable "kxi" as used in the Ge'ez and several modern Ethiopian Semitic languages such as Amharic and Tigrinya. It is part of a broad syllabary system where consonant and vowel combinations are represented by distinct characters, and this particular glyph belongs to the "k" series, with the "xi" vowel modifier derived from the ancient abugida writing tradition. U+12BA is encoded in the Ethiopic block of the Unicode Standard, which was included to support the digital representation of the many languages that rely on this script for writing, especially in the Horn of Africa.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12BA |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Kxi |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ኺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ኺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8A 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x12BA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000012BA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u12ba |