U+132B "ጫ" Ethiopic Syllable Chaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+132B "ጫ" Ethiopic Syllable Chaa is a symbol from the Ge'ez script, used primarily for writing the Amharic and Tigrinya languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea. It represents the syllable pronounced as "cha" or "chaa," with a long vowel sound, and is part of the consonant based syllabary system where each character modifies a base consonant with a specific vowel. This character belongs to the Ethiopic block in Unicode, which encodes the traditional script for liturgical and modern languages in the Horn of Africa, and it plays a functional role in everyday writing, literature, and digital communication for millions of speakers.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+132B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Chaa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ጫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ጫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8C 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x132B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000132B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u132b |