U+1315 "ጕ" Ethiopic Syllable Gwe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1315 "ጕ" Ethiopic Syllable Gwe is a written symbol from the Ethiopic script, used to represent the syllable "gwe" in languages like Amharic, Tigrinya, and Ge'ez. It belongs to a family of syllabary characters that combine a consonant sound with a specific vowel, in this case the labiovelar "gw" followed by the vowel "e". This character is part of the extensive Unicode Ethiopic block, which supports the writing systems of various languages in the Horn of Africa, enabling digital text representation and preservation of these ancient and contemporary scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1315 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Gwe |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ጕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ጕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8C 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1315 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001315 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1315 |