U+131C "ጜ" Ethiopic Syllable Ggee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ጜ
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 |