U+1388 "ᎈ" Ethiopic Syllable Sebatbeit Fwa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1388 "ᎈ" Ethiopic Syllable Sebatbeit Fwa is a glyph used in the Ge'ez script, specifically representing a syllable from the Sebatbeit dialect of the Ethiopian Semitic languages. This character combines a consonant sound with the vowel "wa," as part of a syllabary system where each symbol denotes a distinct consonant-vowel pairing. U+1388 belongs to the Ethiopic Extended-A block of Unicode, which was added to support lesser-used orthographies like Sebatbeit, ensuring accurate digital representation of the language's phonetic inventory. Its inclusion helps preserve and document linguistic diversity by allowing written communication, digital archiving, and text processing for this Ethiopian language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1388 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Sebatbeit Fwa |
| Block | Ethiopic Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᎈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᎈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x8E 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1388 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001388 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1388 |