U+12C8 "ወ" Ethiopic Syllable Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ወ
U+12C8 "ወ" Ethiopic Syllable Wa is a glyph used in the Geʽez script, which is the writing system for several languages in the Horn of Africa, including Amharic, Tigrinya, and Geʽez itself. This specific character represents the syllable "wa," combining a consonant sound with the vowel "a." In the Ethiopic syllabary, it is part of a systematic ordering based on the 7th order of the script, where each base consonant takes on a different vowel form. The character is historically significant as the Geʽez script has been used for centuries in liturgical texts, modern writing, and cultural expression across Ethiopia and Eritrea.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12C8 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Wa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ወ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ወ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8B 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x12C8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000012C8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u12c8 |