U+1361 "፡" Ethiopic Wordspace Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1361 "፡" Ethiopic Wordspace is a punctuation mark used in the Geʽez script and its descendant languages such as Amharic, Tigrinya, and Tigre. Unlike the standard Latin space, which separates words with an invisible blank area, this visible glyph appears as two small vertical dots or a brief vertical line and functions as a word separator within written Ethiopic texts. Historically adopted from the original script traditions, the wordspace helps clarify boundaries between lexical units in languages where words are not always separated by a full space, and it remains a key feature in liturgical and some modern orthographic conventions. Its presence in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation and support across fonts and software for these languages.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
፡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
፡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE1 0x8D 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x1361 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00001361 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u1361 |
Unicode Properties