U+133C "ጼ" Ethiopic Syllable Tsee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ጼ
U+133C "ጼ" Ethiopic Syllable Tsee is a character in the Ethiopic script used to represent the syllable "tše" in the Geʽez language and other languages that use the script, such as Amharic and Tigrinya. It belongs to the Ethiopic block of the Unicode standard and is derived from the basic consonant sign for "tsa" combined with a vowel modification to indicate the "e" vowel sound, reflecting the syllabic writing system where each character typically represents a consonant-vowel combination. This character is part of a rich set of over 300 Ethiopic syllabic signs that enable the transcription of glottalized and ejective sounds common in Ethiopic languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+133C |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Tsee |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ጼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ጼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8C 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x133C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000133C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u133c |