U+131A "ጚ" Ethiopic Syllable Ggi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+131A "ጚ" Ethiopic Syllable Ggi is a character in the Ethiopic script, which is used for writing various languages in the Horn of Africa, most notably Amharic, Tigrinya, and Ge'ez. This specific syllable represents the sound "ggi" and is part of a larger set of syllabic characters derived from the Ge'ez abugida, where each consonant base is modified with diacritical marks to indicate different vowel sounds. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures that digital text in languages like Amharic can be correctly represented and processed across different computing platforms and devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+131A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Ggi |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ጚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ጚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8C 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x131A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000131A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u131a |