U+12F4 "ዴ" Ethiopic Syllable Dee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ዴ
U+12F4 "ዴ" Ethiopic Syllable Dee is a character in the Ethiopic script used primarily for writing the Geʽez language, as well as modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. It represents the syllable "dee," combining a consonant sound with the vowel "e" as in "bet." This character is part of the Ethiopic block in Unicode, which encodes the syllabary system historically used for liturgical texts and contemporary communication in the Horn of Africa. In Amharic, the syllable "ዴ" appears in words such as "ዴሞክራሲ" (demokrasi), meaning democracy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12F4 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Dee |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ዴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ዴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8B 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x12F4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000012F4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u12f4 |