U+135E "፞" Ethiopic Combining Vowel Length Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
፞
U+135E "፞" Ethiopic Combining Vowel Length Mark is a diacritical mark used in the Ethiopic script, primarily for writing languages like Ge'ez, Amharic, and Tigrinya. It is placed above a consonant base character to indicate that the inherent or attached vowel sound should be lengthened, functioning as a phonetic modifier rather than an independent letter. This combination mark helps distinguish word meanings and grammatical forms where vowel length is significant, though its usage is less common in modern standard orthographies compared to other vowel marks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+135E |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Combining 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 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x135E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000135E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u135e |