U+1384 "ᎄ" Ethiopic Syllable Sebatbeit Bwa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1384 "ᎄ" Ethiopic Syllable Sebatbeit Bwa is a symbol from the Ethiopic script, specifically belonging to the Sebatbeit dialect group used for writing the Gurage languages of Ethiopia. This character represents a syllable formed by the consonant "b" combined with the vowel "wa," and it is encoded in the Unicode Standard as part of the Ethiopic Extended block. It serves to support the orthographic representation of sounds unique to Sebatbeit, a Semitic language spoken by a significant community in southwestern Ethiopia. The inclusion of this character in Unicode facilitates accurate digital text processing, documentation, and preservation of the language in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1384 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Sebatbeit Bwa |
| Block | Ethiopic Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᎄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᎄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8E 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1384 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001384 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1384 |