U+1353 "ፓ" Ethiopic Syllable Paa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1353 "ፓ" Ethiopic Syllable Paa is a glyph from the Geʽez script, used for writing the Ethiopic languages such as Amharic, Tigrinya, and Geʽez itself. This specific character represents the syllable "paa," formed by combining the consonant sign for "p" with the vowel diacritic for the long "aa" sound. It belongs to the Ethiopic block of Unicode and is typically employed in modern and historical texts to accurately transcribe sounds borrowed from other languages, as the native consonant "p" is not original to the Geʽez syllabary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1353 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Paa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ፓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ፓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8D 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1353 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001353 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1353 |