U+1319 "ጙ" Ethiopic Syllable Ggu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ጙ
U+1319 "ጙ" Ethiopic Syllable Ggu is a symbol from the Ethiopic block used to represent the syllable sound "ggu" in the Ge'ez script, a writing system historically employed for liturgical texts in Ethiopia and Eritrea and adapted for modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. This character is part of a syllabary where each base consonant is modified by vowel markers, and U+1319 denotes the consonant "G" combined with the vowel "u." It is encoded as part of Unicode’s effort to digitally preserve ancient and modern scripts, enabling accurate representation in digital text for religious, historical, and linguistic purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1319 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Ggu |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ጙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ጙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8C 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1319 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001319 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1319 |