U+1328 "ጨ" Ethiopic Syllable Cha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ጨ
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 |