U+12CB "ዋ" Ethiopic Syllable Waa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ዋ
U+12CB "ዋ" Ethiopic Syllable Waa is a glyph in the Ethiopic script (Ge'ez) used to write languages such as Amharic, Tigrinya, and Ge'ez itself, representing the syllable "waa." This character belongs to the set of syllabic signs derived from the base consonant "ወ" (wä), modified by a diacritic or vowel marker to indicate the longer "aa" vowel sound. In the Unicode standard, it is encoded in the Ethiopic block (U+1200–U+137F) and is typically employed in liturgical texts, modern writing systems, and digital communications for these languages, preserving the traditional orthography of the region.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12CB |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Waa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ዋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ዋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8B 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x12CB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000012CB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u12cb |