U+1336 "ጶ" Ethiopic Syllable Pho Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ጶ
U+1336 "ጶ" Ethiopic Syllable Pho is part of the Ethiopic script block, representing a syllable in the Geʽez language used historically and liturgically in Ethiopia and Eritrea, as well as in modern Amharic and Tigrinya. This character encodes the sound "pho," which is formed by combining the consonant "p" with the vowel "o," and it is one of many syllabic characters in the Ethiopic abugida, where each glyph denotes a consonant-vowel combination. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text in these languages can be accurately represented, supporting cultural preservation and communication for millions of speakers.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1336 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Pho |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ጶ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ጶ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8C 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1336 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001336 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1336 |