U+133D "ጽ" Ethiopic Syllable Tse Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+133D "ጽ" Ethiopic Syllable Tse is a glyph from the Ge'ez script, used historically for the liturgical languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea and continuing in modern use for Amharic and Tigrinya. It represents the syllable "tse," composed of the consonant sound "ts" combined with the inherent vowel "ä" or "e" depending on the language's phonetic rules. This character is part of the Ethiopic block within the Unicode standard, which encodes the syllabary's consonant base forms and their vocalic modifications through systematic character assignments, enabling digital text representation for over a dozen languages in the Horn of Africa.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+133D |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Tse |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ጽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ጽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8C 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x133D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000133D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u133d |