U+1347 "ፇ" Ethiopic Syllable Tzoa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ፇ
U+1347 "ፇ" Ethiopic Syllable Tzoa is a glyph from the Geʽez script, which is traditionally used to write the liturgical and classical languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea, particularly Geʽez and Amharic. This character represents the syllable "tzoa," which combines a consonant sound similar to a voiced alveolar affricate with the vowel "oa." As part of the Ethiopic block in Unicode, it serves to preserve and enable digital representation of an ancient and historically rich writing system that has been in use for over two millennia, playing a key role in the cultural and religious texts of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and other regional languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1347 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Tzoa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ፇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ፇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8D 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1347 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001347 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1347 |