U+1309 "ጉ" Ethiopic Syllable Gu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ጉ
U+1309 "ጉ" Ethiopic Syllable Gu is a symbol from the Ge'ez script, historically used for writing the liturgical Ge'ez language of Ethiopia and Eritrea, as well as modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. This character represents the syllable "gu," and it is formed by combining the consonant sound "g" with the vowel "u" as part of the abugida writing system, where each character inherently includes a vowel. In the Unicode standard, it belongs to the Ethiopic block, which encodes a comprehensive range of such syllabic characters to facilitate digital communication and text representation for millions of speakers across the Horn of Africa.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1309 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Gu |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ጉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ጉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8C 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1309 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001309 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1309 |