U+130C "ጌ" Ethiopic Syllable Gee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+130C "ጌ" Ethiopic Syllable Gee is a grapheme from the Geʽez script, which is used to write several languages of the Horn of Africa, including Amharic, Tigrinya, and Geʽez itself. Representing the syllable that sounds like "gee" or "gē," this character belongs to the U+1200 to U+137F Ethiopic block and is formed by modifying the base consonant sign for "g" with a diacritic that indicates the final vowel sound. In the traditional abugida system of the Ethiopic script, each base consonant can be combined with seven standard vowel modifications to create distinct syllables, and "ጌ" specifically corresponds to the fourth-order vowel, which is a long e sound. This character plays a functional role in writing many common words and names within the linguistic communities that use the script, helping to preserve and transmit centuries of literary, liturgical, and everyday communication.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ጌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ጌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE1 0x8C 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x130C |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000130C |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u130c |
Unicode Properties