U+12DC "ዜ" Ethiopic Syllable Zee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ዜ
U+12DC "ዜ" Ethiopic Syllable Zee is a glyph representing the syllable "zee" in the Geʽez script, which is used to write several languages of the Horn of Africa, including Amharic and Tigrinya. It belongs to the Ethiopic block of the Unicode standard and is part of a larger syllabary system where characters represent consonant vowel combinations. This specific character corresponds to the consonant "z" combined with the vowel "e", and its distinctive shape visually differentiates it from other similar syllables in the script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12DC |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Zee |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ዜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ዜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8B 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x12DC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000012DC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u12dc |