U+12FF "ዿ" Ethiopic Syllable Ddwa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ዿ
U+12FF "ዿ" Ethiopic Syllable Ddwa is a distinctive symbol in the Geʽez script, which is used for several languages in the Horn of Africa, including Amharic and Tigrinya. It represents the syllable "ddwa," which is a consonant-vowel combination featuring the ejective or emphatic dental consonant "d" pronounced with the vowel "wa." This character is part of the Ethiopic block of Unicode, a system that encodes the script's syllabic writing system, where each character corresponds to a specific phonetic syllable. The inclusion of U+12FF helps preserve and digitally represent the linguistic heritage of Ethiopic languages, allowing for accurate text rendering, typing, and communication in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+12FF |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Ddwa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ዿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ዿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8B 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x12FF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000012FF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u12ff |