U+131F "ጟ" Ethiopic Syllable Ggwaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ጟ
U+131F "ጟ" Ethiopic Syllable Ggwaa is a symbol from the Geʽez script, used historically for liturgical and classical Ethiopic languages and today for modern Amharic and Tigrinya. It represents a syllable pronounced as "ggwaa" or with a velar ejective sound, formed by combining the consonant base for "g" with the labiovelar "w" and the vowel "aa". This character is part of the Ethiopic block of Unicode, which systematically encodes syllables with a common consonant sign modified by diacritic-like additions to indicate different vowels. In digital text, "ጟ" allows accurate representation and preservation of the rich phonetic and orthographic traditions of Ethiopic languages in computing systems worldwide.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+131F |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Ggwaa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ጟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ጟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8C 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x131F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000131F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u131f |