U+1364 "፤" Ethiopic Semicolon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
፤
U+1364 "፤" Ethiopic Semicolon is a punctuation mark used in the Geʽez script and other Ethiopic writing systems, primarily for languages such as Amharic, Tigrinya, and Geʽez itself. It visually resembles a single vertical dot similar to a Latin colon but functions like a semicolon in English, indicating a pause or separation between clauses that is stronger than a comma but weaker than a period. This character is part of the Ethiopic block in Unicode, serving a distinct grammatical role within the script’s traditional punctuation set.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1364 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Semicolon |
| Block | Ethiopic |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ፤ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ፤ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8D 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1364 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001364 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1364 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Ethiopic |
| Script Extensions | Ethiopic |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Terminal Punctuation | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |