U+1313 "ጓ" Ethiopic Syllable Gwaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1313 "ጓ" Ethiopic Syllable Gwaa is a glyph within the Geʽez script, historically used to write the ancient Semitic language of Geʽez and still employed today for modern languages such as Amharic and Tigrinya. It represents a specific syllable combining the consonant sound "g" with the vowel "waa," making it distinct from other syllables in the Ethiopic writing system, which is an abugida where each character encodes a consonant-vowel pair. This character is part of the Unicode Ethiopic block, coded to enable precise digital representation and exchange of texts in these languages, preserving the linguistic heritage of the Horn of Africa region.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1313 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Gwaa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ጓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ጓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8C 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1313 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001313 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1313 |