U+12D4 "ዔ" Ethiopic Syllable Pharyngeal Ee Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+12D4 "ዔ" Ethiopic Syllable Pharyngeal Ee is a symbol from the Ethiopic script, used for writing languages such as Amharic, Tigrinya, and Ge'ez, representing a syllable pronounced as a pharyngeal fricative "e" sound. This character belongs to the Ethiopic block of Unicode, which encodes the abugida writing system originally developed for the Ge'ez language. In this system, each character represents a consonant combined with a specific vowel, and "ዔ" corresponds to the fourth vowel order, indicating the "ee" sound articulated with pharyngeal constriction. It is commonly employed in liturgical texts and modern languages to denote this particular phonetic value, contributing to the rich linguistic diversity preserved in digital text encoding.

General Properties

Code Point U+12D4
Version Added 3.0
Name Ethiopic Syllable Pharyngeal Ee
Block Ethiopic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ዔ
HTML Hex Encoding ዔ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x8B 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding 0x12D4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000012D4
C/C++/Java Escape \u12d4

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Ethiopic
Script Extensions Ethiopic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter