U+12DF "ዟ" Ethiopic Syllable Zwa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ዟ
U+12DF "ዟ" Ethiopic Syllable Zwa is a glyph in the Unicode Standard that represents a specific syllable from the Geʽez script, used historically to write classical Ethiopic and still employed today for modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. This character is a composite sign, combining the consonant "z" with a vowel modifier to produce the "zwa" sound, and it belongs to the Ethiopic block of Unicode, which systematically encodes the syllabary of the script. As a less common syllable variant, "ዟ" is utilized in precise phonetic transcription and in proper names or loanwords, contributing to the comprehensive representation of the Ethiopic writing system in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12DF |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Zwa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ዟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ዟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8B 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x12DF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000012DF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u12df |