U+135D "፝" Ethiopic Combining Gemination and Vowel Length Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
፝
U+135D "፝" Ethiopic Combining Gemination and Vowel Length Mark is a diacritical mark used in the Geʽez script and related Ethiopic writing systems to indicate both the gemination, or doubling, of a consonant and the lengthening of a preceding vowel within a word. This combining mark is placed directly above a base consonant character to modify its pronunciation, serving a dual phonological role that is essential for accurately representing certain languages such as Amharic and Tigrinya. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard allows for proper digital representation and text rendering of these languages, preserving their grammatical and phonetic nuances in electronic documents and communications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+135D |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Combining Gemination and Vowel Length Mark |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ፝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ፝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8D 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x135D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000135D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u135d |