U+12BE "ኾ" Ethiopic Syllable Kxo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+12BE "ኾ" Ethiopic Syllable Kxo is a glyph used in the Geʽez script, which is primarily employed for writing liturgical and classical Ethiopic texts as well as modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. It represents the syllable "kxo," combining a velar fricative sound with a vowel, and is part of a larger syllabary system where each character denotes a consonant vowel pairing. This specific character is used in the Ethiopic writing system, which has been in use for centuries across the Horn of Africa, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation and preservation of the region's linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12BE |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Kxo |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ኾ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ኾ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8A 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x12BE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000012BE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u12be |