U+1E7E8 "𞟨" Ethiopic Syllable Gurage Hhwa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𞟨
U+1E7E8 "𞟨" Ethiopic Syllable Gurage Hhwa is a script symbol included in the Unicode Standard's Ethiopic Extended-B block, which was designed to represent a specific syllabic sound in the Gurage languages of Ethiopia. This character belongs to a subset of Ethiopic script additions created to accurately transcribe the phonetics of Gurage dialects, where it encodes the syllable "Hhwa" using a modified or extended consonant base. Its inclusion helps support digital text processing for underrepresented Ethiopian languages, ensuring that native speakers can write and read this particular syllable in electronic communications and documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E7E8 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Gurage Hhwa |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞟨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞟨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0x9F 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD839 0xDFE8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E7E8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud839\udfe8 |