U+134F "ፏ" Ethiopic Syllable Fwa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+134F "ፏ" Ethiopic Syllable Fwa is a glyph representing a specific syllable within the Geʽez script, which is used to write several languages of the Horn of Africa, including Amharic and Tigrinya. This character is formed by combining the consonant sound for "f" (which corresponds to the base Ethiopic character "ፈ" or "fä") with the labiovelar glide "w," and it is classified under the Ethiopic Syllable series known as "Fwa" where the inherent vowel sound is "a." As part of the Unicode Standard, it is encoded in the Ethiopic block (U+1200 to U+137F) and is used in modern and historical texts to accurately represent the phonetic and orthographic nuances of languages that employ the Ethiopic writing system.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ፏ
HTML Hex Encoding ፏ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x8D 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding 0x134F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000134F
C/C++/Java Escape \u134f

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