U+132F "ጯ" Ethiopic Syllable Chwa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ጯ
U+132F "ጯ" Ethiopic Syllable Chwa is a symbol from the Geʽez script, primarily used to write liturgical texts for the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and modern languages like Amharic and Tigrinya. This specific syllable represents the consonant "ch" combined with the vowel "wa," functioning as a distinct phonetic unit within the abugida writing system of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Its visual form, derived from the ancient Sabaean script, belongs to the Ethiopic block of Unicode, ensuring that digital communication and preservation of these languages accurately include this character.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+132F |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Chwa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ጯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ጯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8C 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x132F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000132F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u132f |