U+133C "ጼ" Ethiopic Syllable Tsee Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Ethiopic
Script Extensions Ethiopic
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter