U+12CA "ዊ" Ethiopic Syllable Wi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+12CA "ዊ" Ethiopic Syllable Wi is a symbol from the Ge'ez script, used in modern writing systems for languages such as Amharic and Tigrinya in the Horn of Africa. It represents the syllabic sound "wi" and is part of the Ethiopic block of Unicode, which encodes a rich repertoire of characters originally developed for the ancient Ge'ez liturgical language. This particular character is formed by modifying a base consonant with a diacritic to indicate the vowel /i/, reflecting the abugida system where each consonant has an inherent vowel that can be altered.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12CA |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Wi |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ዊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ዊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8B 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x12CA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000012CA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u12ca |