U+133F "ጿ" Ethiopic Syllable Tswa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ጿ
U+133F "ጿ" Ethiopic Syllable Tswa is a glyph from the Geʽez script, an ancient abugida used to write the classical Ethiopic language and modern languages such as Amharic and Tigrinya. It represents a syllable formed by the consonant "ts" combined with the vowel "a," and its visual form is one of the more complex and distinctive characters in the Ethiopic block. This character is part of a larger system of syllabic writing where each consonant base is modified by a set of diacritic-like alterations to indicate different vowels. In the standard Unicode encoding, it allows for the accurate digital representation and processing of Ethiopic texts, supporting cultural and linguistic preservation for millions of speakers in the Horn of Africa.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+133F |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Tswa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ጿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ጿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8C 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x133F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000133F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u133f |