U+12E7 "ዧ" Ethiopic Syllable Zhwa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+12E7 "ዧ" Ethiopic Syllable Zhwa is a glyph in the Ethiopic script used historically for writing the Ge'ez language and still employed for modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. It represents the syllable sound "zhwa," which is a voiced retroflex fricative combined with the vowel 'a,' and it belongs to a class of labiovelar or specialized consonant variants in the writing system. This character is part of the rich syllabary invented for the Ethiopic abugida, where each symbol denotes a consonant plus a specific vowel, and it is encoded in the Unicode block from U+1200 to U+137F for digital text representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12E7 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Zhwa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ዧ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ዧ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8B 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x12E7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000012E7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u12e7 |