U+1354 "ፔ" Ethiopic Syllable Pee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1354 "ፔ" Ethiopic Syllable Pee is a character in the Ethiopic script used for writing the Ge'ez, Amharic, and Tigrinya languages, among others. It represents the syllable "pee" and is part of a syllabary system where each consonant base is modified by a vowel diacritic to indicate a specific vowel sound. In this case, the base consonant is equivalent to the labial sound /p/ combined with the fourth-order vowel /e/, making it distinct from other syllables in the script. This character occupies the code point U+1354 in the Unicode standard, within the Ethiopic block, and is used in historical and liturgical texts as well as modern writing systems that employ the Ethiopic syllabary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1354 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Pee |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ፔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ፔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8D 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1354 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001354 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1354 |