U+131B "ጛ" Ethiopic Syllable Ggaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ጛ
U+131B "ጛ" Ethiopic Syllable Ggaa is a glyph in the Ethiopic script, specifically representing a syllabic sound used in the Ge'ez and related languages such as Amharic and Tigrinya. It is formed by combining the consonant "gg" (a velar or uvular sound) with the vowel "aa," which is the open back unrounded vowel. This character belongs to a systematic script where modifications to a base consonant symbol indicate different vowel attachments, and it is used in liturgical and modern written forms to convey specific lexical and grammatical meanings within these Afroasiatic languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+131B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Ggaa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ጛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ጛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8C 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x131B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000131B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u131b |