U+1303 "ጃ" Ethiopic Syllable Jaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ጃ
U+1303 "ጃ" Ethiopic Syllable Jaa is a glyph from the Ge'ez script used to write the Amharic, Tigrinya, and other languages of the Horn of Africa, representing the syllable pronounced "jaa" or "ǧā". This character is part of a larger syllabary system where each symbol denotes a consonant plus a specific vowel, and in this case, it uses the Ge'ez letter "j" (ጀ) modified with a diacritic to indicate the open back vowel "aa". In digital text, it enables accurate representation and processing of Ethiopian and Eritrean languages, supporting both modern and liturgical usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1303 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Jaa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ጃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ጃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8C 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1303 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001303 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1303 |