U+1304 "ጄ" Ethiopic Syllable Jee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1304 "ጄ" Ethiopic Syllable Jee is a symbol from the Geʽez script, used historically for liturgical and modern writing of languages like Amharic and Tigrinya in the Horn of Africa. It represents the consonant sound "j" combined with the vowel "ee" (a long e sound), making it one of the many syllabic characters in the Ethiopic writing system, which is an abugida where each character denotes a consonant plus an inherent or modified vowel. This particular syllable appears in words and names common to these languages, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation and preservation of the script across platforms and devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1304 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Jee |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ጄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ጄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8C 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1304 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001304 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1304 |