U+130F "ጏ" Ethiopic Syllable Goa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+130F "ጏ" Ethiopic Syllable Goa is a glyph in the Ethiopic script used to represent the syllable "goa" in the Ge’ez language and modern Ethiopic languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. It belongs to the Ethiopic block of Unicode, which encodes the ancient abugida writing system originating from the Aksumite Empire, where each character combines a consonant and a vowel sound. Historically, this syllable is part of a larger set of characters used for liturgical, historical, and administrative texts, and it remains in use today for writing religious manuscripts, educational materials, and digital communication in the Horn of Africa region.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+130F |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Goa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ጏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ጏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8C 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x130F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000130F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u130f |