U+12C4 "ዄ" Ethiopic Syllable Kxwee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ዄ
U+12C4 "ዄ" Ethiopic Syllable Kxwee is part of the Ethiopic block, which encodes the Geʽez script used for languages like Amharic and Tigrinya in the Horn of Africa. This specific character represents a syllable formed from the consonant "kxw" and the vowel "ee," making it a voiced velar ejective or labialized sound used in certain Ethiopian and Eritrean languages. It is encoded for digital text representation, enabling proper writing and display in modern computing systems, and belongs to the larger set of Ethiopic syllabary characters that evolved from the ancient Geʽez abjad.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12C4 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Kxwee |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ዄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ዄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8B 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x12C4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000012C4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u12c4 |