U+1320 "ጠ" Ethiopic Syllable Tha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1320 "ጠ" Ethiopic Syllable Tha is part of the Ethiopic script used primarily for writing the Geʽez language, as well as modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya in the Horn of Africa. This character represents the syllable "tha" with a voiceless alveolar plosive consonant sound, and it belongs to the first order of the Geʽez alphasyllabary, where each base consonant character is modified with a diacritic to indicate a different vowel. In the Unicode standard, it is encoded in the Ethiopic block (U+1200 to U+137F) and is commonly used in liturgical texts, historical inscriptions, and contemporary digital communication for these languages. Its visual form features a distinctive angular shape with a horizontal base and a vertical stroke, reflecting the traditional style of the script.

General Properties

Code Point U+1320
Version Added 3.0
Name Ethiopic Syllable Tha
Block Ethiopic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ጠ
HTML Hex Encoding ጠ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x8C 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1320
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001320
C/C++/Java Escape \u1320

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