U+12D2 "ዒ" Ethiopic Syllable Pharyngeal I Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ዒ
U+12D2 "ዒ" Ethiopic Syllable Pharyngeal I is a symbol from the Geʽez script, which is used for liturgical and modern languages such as Amharic and Tigrinya in the Horn of Africa. This specific character represents a syllable composed of the pharyngeal consonant sound /ʕ/ (similar to the Arabic ʿayn) combined with the vowel /i/, and it is part of the larger Ethiopic block of Unicode that encodes over 450 syllables and punctuation marks for the script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12D2 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Pharyngeal I |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ዒ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ዒ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8B 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x12D2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000012D2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u12d2 |