U+1359 "ፙ" Ethiopic Syllable Mya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ፙ
U+1359 "ፙ" Ethiopic Syllable Mya is a glyph used in the Geʽez script, representing the syllable /mja/ in languages such as Amharic and Tigrinya. It is formed by modifying the base consonant letter "ም" (me) with the "ya" diacritic, which indicates the palatalized pronunciation of the consonant sound. This character is part of the Ethiopic block in Unicode, which encodes the traditional script used for liturgical and modern writing in the Horn of Africa. Encoded in Unicode version 3.0 in 1999, it enables accurate digital representation of this specific syllable in various text processing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1359 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Mya |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ፙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ፙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8D 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1359 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001359 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1359 |