U+1321 "ጡ" Ethiopic Syllable Thu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ጡ
U+1321 "ጡ" Ethiopic Syllable Thu is a glyph in the Ethiopic script, specifically representing the syllable "thu" used in the Geʽez language and other languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. It belongs to the Ethiopic block of Unicode, which encodes the traditional abugida writing system of Ethiopia and Eritrea, where each character represents a consonant modified by a vowel. This particular character is formed by combining the consonant "ተ" with the vowel "ኡ" to produce the "thu" sound, and it is employed in liturgical texts and modern written communication within the region.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1321 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Thu |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ጡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ጡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8C 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1321 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001321 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1321 |