U+1328 "ጨ" Ethiopic Syllable Cha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1328 "ጨ" Ethiopic Syllable Cha is a glyph from the Geʽez script, which is used for writing several languages in the Horn of Africa, including Amharic and Tigrinya. This character represents the syllable "cha" and belongs to the first order of the Ethiopic syllabary, where the basic consonant form is modified by a vowel diacritic to produce the /t͡ʃa/ sound. It is part of Unicode's Ethiopic block, encoded to preserve and support digital communication in these ancient and modern languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+1328
Version Added 3.0
Name Ethiopic Syllable Cha
Block Ethiopic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ጨ
HTML Hex Encoding ጨ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x8C 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1328
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001328
C/C++/Java Escape \u1328

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