U+1332 "ጲ" Ethiopic Syllable Phi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ጲ
U+1332 "ጲ" Ethiopic Syllable Phi is a glyph from the Ethiopic or Ge’ez script, which is used to write languages such as Amharic and Tigrinya in the Horn of Africa. This specific character represents the syllable "phi," formed by the consonant sound "p" combined with the vowel "i," and it belongs to the labial series of the Ethiopic syllabary, which was historically adapted from the consonant-based Ge’ez script. In modern usage, the character is part of the Unicode Standard’s Ethiopic block, ensuring its digital representation and text processing across platforms and devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1332 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Phi |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ጲ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ጲ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8C 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1332 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001332 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1332 |