U+12E8 "የ" Ethiopic Syllable Ya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
የ
U+12E8 "የ" Ethiopic Syllable Ya is a glyph representing a single syllable in the Geʽez script, which is traditionally used for liturgical and modern writing of the Geʽez, Amharic, and Tigrinya languages in the Horn of Africa. This character corresponds to the syllable "ya" and belongs to the Ethiopic block of the Unicode standard, where it serves as a fundamental component for writing words and texts, particularly in its role as a syllabary that represents consonant vowel combinations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12E8 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Ya |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | የ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | የ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8B 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x12E8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000012E8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u12e8 |