U+1326 "ጦ" Ethiopic Syllable Tho Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ጦ
U+1326 "ጦ" Ethiopic Syllable Tho is a symbol from the Geʽez script, used historically for liturgical and modern writing in languages such as Amharic and Tigrinya. It represents the syllable sound "tho," which is articulated with a voiceless dental or alveolar ejective, a distinctive phonetic feature of these Afroasiatic languages. The character is part of the Ethiopic block in Unicode, which was added to support the digital representation of a writing system that dates back over two millennia and remains integral to the cultural and religious identity of the Horn of Africa region.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1326 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Tho |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ጦ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ጦ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8C 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1326 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001326 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1326 |