U+12E6 "ዦ" Ethiopic Syllable Zho Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ዦ
U+12E6 "ዦ" Ethiopic Syllable Zho is a grapheme in the Geʽez script used for writing the Amharic and Tigrinya languages, representing the syllable "žo" (a voiced postalveolar fricative followed by the vowel "o"). In the Ethiopic abugida system, it is derived from the base consonant sign for "ž" (U+12E0 ዠ) by adding a diagonal diacritic mark that modifies the inherent vowel to "o". This character is primarily employed in modern digital text processing for liturgical, historical, and everyday communication within the Horn of Africa region, ensuring accurate representation of the sound inventory in these languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12E6 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Zho |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ዦ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ዦ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8B 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x12E6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000012E6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u12e6 |