U+131C "ጜ" Ethiopic Syllable Ggee Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+131C "ጜ" Ethiopic Syllable Ggee is part of the Ethiopic script block used for writing languages like Ge'ez, Amharic, and Tigrinya, representing a syllable composed of the consonant sound /g/ modified with a specific vowel, typically a variant or inflection of the vowel 'e' or 'i' in the Ge'ez syllabary as defined by the abugida system. This character demonstrates the script's structure where a base consonant is combined with a vowel diacritic to form a distinct syllable, often transcribed as "gge" to indicate the particular phonemic value it encodes in liturgical or modern usage.

General Properties

Code Point U+131C
Version Added 3.0
Name Ethiopic Syllable Ggee
Block Ethiopic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ጜ
HTML Hex Encoding ጜ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x8C 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x131C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000131C
C/C++/Java Escape \u131c

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Ethiopic
Script Extensions Ethiopic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter