U+12E5 "ዥ" Ethiopic Syllable Zhe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ዥ
U+12E5 "ዥ" Ethiopic Syllable Zhe is a glyph from the Ethiopic script, which is used primarily for writing the Geʽez language, as well as modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya in the Horn of Africa. This character represents the syllable "zhe," corresponding to a voiced postalveolar fricative sound, and is part of a larger syllabary system where each base consonant character modifies its form with diacritic marks or changes to indicate different vowels. In the Ethiopic script, U+12E5 is categorized under the "Ethiopic" block and is encoded for digital text representation, ensuring its use in documents, software, and online communications that support these languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12E5 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Zhe |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ዥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ዥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8B 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x12E5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000012E5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u12e5 |