U+12E0 "ዠ" Ethiopic Syllable Zha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+12E0 "ዠ" Ethiopic Syllable Zha is a glyph from the Ethiopic script used to write the Amharic, Tigrinya, and Ge'ez languages, among others. It represents the syllabic sound "zha," a voiced postalveolar fricative, and is part of the standard set of Ethiopic syllabary characters that derive from the consonantal base for the sound "z" with a specific vowel modification. This character is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Ethiopic block, enabling its consistent digital representation across different platforms and systems for linguistic and historical texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12E0 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Zha |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ዠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ዠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8B 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x12E0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000012E0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u12e0 |