U+131D "ጝ" Ethiopic Syllable Gge Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ጝ
U+131D "ጝ" Ethiopic Syllable Gge is a glyph from the Ethiopic script, used primarily for writing the Geʽez language and other languages in the Horn of Africa such as Amharic and Tigrinya. It represents a syllable pronounced as "gge," formed by modifying the base consonant sign for "g" with a specific vowel diacritic to indicate the vowel sound that follows. This character is part of the Ethiopic block in Unicode, which encodes the syllabary that has been historically employed for liturgical and literary purposes in Ethiopian and Eritrean traditions, and it appears alongside other consonant vowel combinations in the script's standard ordering.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+131D |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Gge |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ጝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ጝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8C 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x131D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000131D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u131d |