U+1312 "ጒ" Ethiopic Syllable Gwi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1312 "ጒ" Ethiopic Syllable Gwi is a glyph from the Geʽez script, representing the syllable sound "gwi" and is used in the Ethiopian Semitic languages such as Amharic and Tigrinya, where it functions as a specific phonetic combination of a consonant and a vowel. Its Unicode encoding in the Ethiopic block allows for digital representation and processing, ensuring correct display and text handling across modern computing platforms. This character is part of a larger syllabary system that organizes characters by modifying a base consonant shape with various vowel markings, and it remains in active use for writing and reading these languages in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1312 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Gwi |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ጒ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ጒ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8C 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1312 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001312 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1312 |