U+12F3 "ዳ" Ethiopic Syllable Daa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+12F3 "ዳ" Ethiopic Syllable Daa is a symbol from the Geʽez script used primarily for liturgical and modern writing in languages like Amharic and Tigrinya, representing the syllable "daa." It is part of the Ethiopic block in Unicode, which encodes a syllabary system where each character modifies a base consonant with a specific vowel, in this case the long "a" vowel indicated by a diacritic-like extension on the consonant "d." This character enables precise representation of the phonetic sound in written form, supporting the preservation and digital communication of these ancient and widely spoken East African languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12F3 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Daa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ዳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ዳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8B 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x12F3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000012F3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u12f3 |