U+1318 "ጘ" Ethiopic Syllable Gga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ጘ
U+1318 "ጘ" Ethiopic Syllable Gga is a letter from the Geʽez script, which is traditionally used for writing the liturgical languages of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church as well as modern Amharic and Tigrinya. This specific syllable represents the sound "gga" and belongs to a consonant series distinguished by a labialized velar articulation, often employed in transliterating foreign names or in specific lexical roots. Its design, like other Ethiopic characters, is based on a consonant root with a modifying diacritic to indicate the vowel "a", making it an integral part of the abugida writing system where each character represents a syllable rather than a single phoneme.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1318 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Gga |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ጘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ጘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8C 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1318 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001318 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1318 |