U+134C "ፌ" Ethiopic Syllable Fee Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+134C "ፌ" Ethiopic Syllable Fee is a script character used in the Ethiopic writing system, which is traditionally employed for Ge'ez, Amharic, Tigrinya, and other languages of the Horn of Africa. This particular character represents the syllable "fee," formed by modifying the base consonant Fä (ፈ) with the vowel diacritic for the sound "e," making it part of a rich syllabary where each consonant base combines with seven distinct vowel forms. While historically used for liturgical texts in the Ge'ez language, it remains actively used in modern digital communication for languages like Amharic, where it helps convey accurate pronunciation and meaning in written form.

General Properties

Code Point U+134C
Version Added 3.0
Name Ethiopic Syllable Fee
Block Ethiopic
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ፌ
HTML Hex Encoding ፌ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x8D 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x134C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000134C
C/C++/Java Escape \u134c

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