U+1308 "ገ" Ethiopic Syllable Ga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1308 "ገ" Ethiopic Syllable Ga is a glyph from the Ge'ez script, an ancient abugida used historically for liturgical and classical Ethiopic languages and today for modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya in the Horn of Africa. This specific character represents the syllable "ga," formed by combining the consonant sound /g/ with the inherent vowel /ä/, which is the default vowel in the Ethiopic script. As a fundamental building block of the syllabary, ገ appears in countless words across these languages and reflects the distinctive left-to-right writing system that has been in continuous use for over two millennia. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures digital preservation and global accessibility for millions of speakers who rely on this script for communication, literature, and cultural expression.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ገ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ገ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE1 0x8C 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x1308 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00001308 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u1308 |
Unicode Properties