U+12EE "ዮ" Ethiopic Syllable Yo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ዮ
U+12EE "ዮ" Ethiopic Syllable Yo is a glyph from the Ethiopic block, representing the syllable "yo" in the Geʽez script, which is historically used for liturgical and classical Ethiopic, and remains in modern use for languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. It is formed by combining the consonant sound for "y" with the vowel sign for "o," and it appears in the script's standard syllabary order. This character is encoded for digital text representation, enabling electronic communication and data processing in languages that rely on the Ethiopic writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12EE |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Yo |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ዮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ዮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8B 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x12EE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000012EE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u12ee |