U+134B "ፋ" Ethiopic Syllable Faa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+134B "ፋ" Ethiopic Syllable Faa is a glyph from the Geʽez script, used primarily for writing Ethiopic languages such as Amharic, Tigrinya, and Geʽez itself. It represents the syllable pronounced as "faa," combining the consonant sound /f/ with the vowel /a/. This character is part of the Ethiopic block within the Unicode Standard, which encodes the historical and modern syllabary that evolved from the ancient Geʽez abugida. In written texts, it functions as a fundamental building block for words in languages like Amharic, where it might appear in loanwords or native vocabulary requiring that specific syllabic sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+134B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Faa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ፋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ፋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8D 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x134B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000134B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u134b |