U+1E7EA "𞟪" Ethiopic Syllable Hhwee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1E7EA "𞟪" Ethiopic Syllable Hhwee is a written sign in the Ethiopic script, an abugida used for languages like Amharic, Tigrinya, and Geʽez. It represents a syllable pronounced as "hhwee," with the special diacritic marking a labiovelarized or rounded version of the glottal fricative consonant "hh" (voiceless pharyngeal fricative) followed by the vowel "e." This character is part of the Ethiopic Extended-B block, added in Unicode version 14.0 in 2021, and is used in modern orthographies for languages such as Gurage and Sebat Bet, where it helps accurately transcribe specific sounds not found in Classical Ethiopic.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E7EA |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Ethiopic Syllable Hhwee |
| Block | Ethiopic Extended-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞟪 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞟪 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0x9F 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD839 0xDFEA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E7EA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud839\udfea |