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
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