U+132C "ጬ" Ethiopic Syllable Chee Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+132C "ጬ" Ethiopic Syllable Chee is a glyph in the Geʽez script that represents the syllable "chee," used primarily in languages such as Amharic and Tigrinya, which are spoken in the Horn of Africa. This character belongs to the Ethiopic block of Unicode, a writing system that originated from the ancient Geʽez alphabet and is written from left to right. As a syllabary, each character in this script typically combines a consonant base with a vowel sound, and in this case, the "ጬ" character denotes the velar or palatal consonant "ch" pronounced with the vowel "e" like in the English word "cheese." Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation and text processing across platforms, preserving the linguistic heritage of millions of speakers in Ethiopia and Eritrea.

General Properties

Code Point U+132C
Version Added 3.0
Name Ethiopic Syllable Chee
Block Ethiopic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ጬ
HTML Hex Encoding ጬ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x8C 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x132C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000132C
C/C++/Java Escape \u132c

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