U+1325 "ጥ" Ethiopic Syllable The Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ጥ
U+1325 "ጥ" Ethiopic Syllable The is a letter from the Geʽez script, used historically for classical Ethiopic and modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. It represents the consonant sound "th" combined with the vowel "e" or "ä," depending on linguistic context, and belongs to a syllabary system where each character denotes a specific consonant-vowel pair. This character is part of the Ethiopic block in Unicode, which was encoded to support the rich literary and liturgical traditions of the Horn of Africa.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1325 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable The |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ጥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ጥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8C 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1325 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001325 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1325 |