U+1357 "ፗ" Ethiopic Syllable Pwa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1357 "ፗ" Ethiopic Syllable Pwa is part of the Ethiopic script, used historically for languages like Ge'ez, Amharic, and Tigrinya, where it represents the syllable pronounced "pwa." This character belongs to a larger set of syllabic symbols derived from the ancient Ge'ez abugida, where each consonant-vowel combination is encoded as a distinct glyph. The inclusion of U+1357 in the Unicode Standard ensures that digital text can accurately represent this specific syllable, preserving the orthography of Ethiopic languages and supporting communication in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1357 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Pwa |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ፗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ፗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8D 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1357 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001357 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1357 |