U+1301 "ጁ" Ethiopic Syllable Ju Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ጁ
U+1301 "ጁ" Ethiopic Syllable Ju is a symbol from the Geʽez script, used primarily for writing the Ethiopic languages Amharic and Tigrinya, as well as other languages in the Horn of Africa. This specific character represents the syllable "ju" and is part of a larger syllabary system that evolved from an abjad, with each character encoding a consonant-vowel combination. In the Unicode standard, it falls within the Ethiopic block, which was added to support digital text representation of these historically and culturally significant scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1301 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Ju |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ጁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ጁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8C 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1301 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001301 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1301 |