U+1305 "ጅ" Ethiopic Syllable Je Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ጅ
U+1305 "ጅ" Ethiopic Syllable Je is a glyph in the Geʽez script, used primarily for writing the Amharic and Tigrinya languages in the Horn of Africa. It represents the syllable "je" and belongs to the Ethiopic block of the Unicode standard, which encodes characters from the ancient and modern liturgical and secular script of Ethiopia and Eritrea. The character is composed of a consonant base with a vowel diacritic, following the syllabary structure of the script where each symbol denotes a consonant vowel combination. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures digital representation and text processing for millions of speakers who use these languages in computing, publishing, and communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1305 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Je |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ጅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ጅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8C 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1305 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001305 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1305 |