U+133B "ጻ" Ethiopic Syllable Tsaa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+133B "ጻ" Ethiopic Syllable Tsaa is a symbol from the Geʽez script, which is historically used to write the Ethiopic Semitic languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea, including Amharic and Tigrinya. This specific character represents the syllable "tsaa", consisting of the consonant sound "ts" paired with the vowel "aa". It belongs to the Ethiopic block of the Unicode Standard, which encodes the syllabary system traditionally used for liturgical and modern languages in the Horn of Africa. The Geʽez script is written from left to right, and each character represents a distinct syllable, with modifications for different vowels applied to a base consonant form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+133B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Tsaa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ጻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ጻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8C 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x133B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000133B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u133b |