U+1300 "ጀ" Ethiopic Syllable Ja Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ጀ
U+1300 "ጀ" Ethiopic Syllable Ja is a glyph from the Geʽez script, used historically for liturgical and classical Ethiopic languages and today for modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. This character represents the syllable "ja," formed by combining the consonant sound "j" with the vowel "a," and it belongs to the first-order vowel series in the script. As part of the Ethiopic block in Unicode, it enables accurate digital representation of texts in the Horn of Africa, preserving the linguistic heritage of regions such as Ethiopia and Eritrea.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1300 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Ja |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ጀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ጀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8C 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1300 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001300 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1300 |